Killer Diaresis Keeps New Yorker Editors Living In Fear

“My predecessor (and the former keeper of the comma shaker) told me that she used to pester the style editor, Hobie Weekes, who had been at the magazine since 1928, to get rid of the diaeresis. She found it fussy. She said that once, in the elevator, he told her he was on the verge of changing that style and would be sending out a memo soon. And then he died.”
 — Will no one rid The New Yorker of the tiresome diaresis?