This article is the second of a three-part series from a question submitted by Oska. Also read : Part 1 : la cédille (French cedilla) Part 3 : le “œ” (French ligature) What is a tréma ? Have a look at the tréma ID card! (I’ll explain the “acts as a crown” function in the next section, keep reading.) Technically, the tréma -or diaeresis- is a diacritic sign made or two dots. Actually, it used to be written like two acute accents (‘’), but is now written as two dots (¨). If you know German, the tréma looks like the German umlaut. 2) Its name really is “tréma” only, not … Read More →