How To Spell Zoe With Dots

Zoë is a 3rd century name that is well established and has had 2 saints.

How to spell zoe with dots. The mark on the letter ë and other vowels like it can actually be one of two things. Most people know how to pronounce it and if they don t then they ll just feel dumb for saying it wrong. And my name is zoe.

If you could choose how would you spell it. For the name under consideration in the us zoe without the diaeresis is the majority choice for all three. I mean obviously spell it however you want.

My opinion is just zoe over zoey. This is what it means in german but isn t really used that way in english. You are correct but use the dots zoey is a modern corruption.

It comes from the alexandrian jews translation of the bible where eve was translated as zoë being the greek word for life. A mark of vowel fronting often called an umlaut which is the term for the process. The two dots tell us to break one single syllable up into two new syllables.

Sometimes these are different. Pull down the tools menu select the character tools submenu select the insert special character menu item select the desired letter. I sign my name.

The correct spelling is whatever the generally accepted social surroundings says it is. So you spell it different where you you re from. The ë in zoë s got two dots hanging over it.