Weird Word Wednesday

Diaeresisnoun  di·aer·e·sisDefinition of diaeresisplural diaereses\-ˌsēz\1:  a mark ¨ placed over a vowel to indicate that the vowel is pronounced in a separate syllable (as in naïve or Brontë) — compare umlaut2:  the break in a verse caused by the coincidence of the end of a foot with the end of a wordLate Latin diaeresis, from Greek diairesis,literally, division, from diairein to divide, from dia- + hairein to take
First Known Use: circa 1611
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