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Here is a classification of all cases of a diaeresis at the end of a French word:
besaigue" cigue"
aigue" ambigue" contigue" exigue" subaigue" suraigue"
ai" congai" goi" hai"kai" inoui" sai" samurai" thai" tokai"
canoe"
Esau"
Notes:
"Ai"e! Voici le proble`me que j'ai"
or, using the -c
option:
Ai:e! Voici le proble`me que j'ai:
There is an ambiguity between an ai", the small animal, and the indicative future of avoir (first person singular), when followed by what could be a diaeresis mark. Hopefully, the case is solved by the fact that an apostrophe always precedes the verb and almost never the animal.
Just to complete this topic, note that it would be wrong to make a rule for all words ending in "igue" as needing a diaerisis. Here are counter-examples:
becfigue be`sigue bigue bordigue bourdigue brigue contre-digue digue d'intrigue fatigue figue garrigue gigue igue intrigue ligue prodigue sarigue zigue
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