{"id":14263,"date":"2020-05-20T09:31:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T13:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=14263"},"modified":"2020-05-20T17:32:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T21:32:35","slug":"why-are-there-eyes-on-these-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/05\/20\/why-are-there-eyes-on-these-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Wh\u00ff \u00e4r\u00eb th\u00ebr\u00eb \u00eb\u00ff\u00eb\u0161 \u00f6\u00f1 th\u00eb\u0161\u00eb \u0142\u00ebtt\u00ebr\u0161\u00bf?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most often called an umlaut (German), sometimes called a diaresis, the two dots indicate either a change in that vowel&#8217;s sound (&#8220;umlaut&#8221; means &#8220;about sound&#8221;) or the pronunciation of an ordinarily silent letter, such as in &#8220;na\u00efve&#8221;. Only a few languages (such as Albanian &amp; Tagalog) use two dots over an e. Wikipedia has a great entry on the subject: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diaeresis_(diacritic).\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diaeresis_(diacritic).<\/a> I see that your s&#8217;s have smiles over them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most often called an umlaut (German), sometimes called a diaresis, the two dots indicate either a change in that vowel&#8217;s sound (&#8220;umlaut&#8221; means &#8220;about sound&#8221;) or the pronunciation of an ordinarily silent letter, such as in &#8220;na\u00efve&#8221;. Only a few languages (such as Albanian &amp; Tagalog) use two dots over an e. Wikipedia has a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/05\/20\/why-are-there-eyes-on-these-letters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wh\u00ff \u00e4r\u00eb th\u00ebr\u00eb \u00eb\u00ff\u00eb\u0161 \u00f6\u00f1 th\u00eb\u0161\u00eb \u0142\u00ebtt\u00ebr\u0161\u00bf?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14273,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14263\/revisions\/14273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}