A Sexual-Misconduct Allegation Against Kavanaugh

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Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer, A Sexual-Misconduct Allegation Against the Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Stirs Tension Among Democrats in Congress. New Yorker, Sept 14, 2018 (online date).
https://www.newyorker.com/news/n ... mocrats-in-congress

Note: "Given the heightened attention to issues of sexual misconduct amid the #MeToo movement, the political risks of mishandling the allegation were acute, particularly for Feinstein, who is up for reëlection this year and is facing a challenge from her left."
(a)
(i) diacritic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic
may be atop a letter, or as a superscript or a subscript.
(ii) diaeresis (diacritic)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)
(section 2 Diaeresis: "In British English this usage has been considered obsolete for many years, and in US English, although it persisted for longer, it is now considered archaic as well. Nevertheless, it is still used by the US magazine The New Yorker. In English language texts it is perhaps most familiar in the spellings naïve, Noël, and Chloë")
(iii) English dictionary:
* naïve (adj; from Modern French adjective feminine singular of the same spelling [whose masculine counterpart is naïf], ultimately from Latin [adjective masculine: feminine nativa; not noun] nativus native;  First Known Use 1654)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/naive
* Noel (occasionally Noël)

AP Distributes Style Guide of Holiday Terms. Associated Press, Dec 3, 2014
https://www.ap.org/press-release ... de-of-holiday-terms
("noel[:] A Christmas carol, borrowed from the French word for Christmas, which is capitalized")

noel (n; Did You Know?; First Known Use [in English] 15th century)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noel
is same as AP in definitions (regarding uppercase and lowercase).

In Other words, AP directed its journalists to write noel to means a carol, and to write Noel, Christmas.
* Chloe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe
(also Chloë, Chloé; "comes from the Greek Khlóē, of the many names of the Greek goddess Demeter")
(b) Umlaut (n; from un + [noun masculine] Laut [sound])
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/umlaut
(i) This (merriam-webster.com) is an English dictionary, but Umlaut was borrowed from German, whose noun is always capitalized in the first letter.
(ii) A good instance of Umlaut is Müller (noun masculine AND proper name masculine and feminine). Americans do not know how to pronounce this vowel. But it is easy for Chinese, which is exactly the same as 魚 雨. As a noun it means the same as English noun miller. As a surname, it is still identical to English surname Miller. In German language, the umlaut changes the pronunciation of u (to ü, though I do not know how German pronounce their u).