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We call it "trema"
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When I learnt French, those dots were called "trema", as in Zoë, Chloë, Zaïre and Citroën.Another way is to spell it Zoé."But it’s all right now.
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Yes, it's a trema, which is used in French to indicate that two adjacent vowels are pronounced separately: "zo-EH"
I'm surpised that Zoé is a legimate spelling. In this version, he accent does create the 'eh' sound, but the 'oe', by French pronunciation rules, would be a diphthong.
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