Talk:reënable

Alternate spelling which is the norm?

I wonder why the accented version is considered the most standard? I'd never seen it till looking at this entry. I also note that the OED has no record of the accented version, but gives quotes as:

1633 T. ADAMS Exp. 2 Peter iii. 18 Thus are we re-enabled to pay him the debt of glory. 1834 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 616 To require..many months before the patient was re-enabled to take his station in society.

WilliamKF 19:16, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

The three listed forms — re-enable, reenable, and reënable — are all perfectly standard; {{alternative spelling of}} definitions should not be taken otherwise unless there is also a context tag or usage note to go with it. For reasons of entry synchronisation and œconomy of time, often only one spelling is given a full entry, whilst all the other forms are created as “soft redirects” thereto; note, for example, that (deprecated template usage) re-enable is now a full entry. † ﴾^(u):Raifʻhār ^(t):Doremítzwr﴿ 00:12, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't believe the diacritical forms are standard. In my experience they are used only rarely and pedantically. Equinox ◑ 00:19, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

They’re still standard, even if they’re more rarely used nowadays; The New Yorker is an example of a popular publication that still employs the diæresis in this capacity. † ﴾^(u):Raifʻhār ^(t):Doremítzwr﴿ 01:25, 12 March 2009 (UTC)