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by thaumasiotes 378 days ago
> The diaeresis emphasizes that "naive" does not rhyme with "dive", "five", "hive", "jive", etc.

It can't emphasize that; there's nothing to suggest that "naive" would rhyme with those words. It emphasizes that it doesn't rhyme with "glaive" and "waive"...