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by dublinben 3431 days ago
Those "pretentious" dots are the difference between a chicken coop and a worker coöp. They're to completely different words, and the spelling makes this clear.
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I'm anti-snob but I do like it when publications write "résumé" instead of "resume" for a job seeker's summary.

Those extra accent marks make it much more readable. Without them, I always mentally pronounce "employe resume" as "employee rezoom" and then backtrack to correct myself to pronounce it as "employee rayzoomay".

True, however cooperation and coöperation are not.
Maybe the first instance of chicken recooperation?