Gary Williams wrote on 28 Jul 2004: It's like "ice tea" and "teenage". They ought to be ... to update has turned these past-participial adjectives into nominal adjectives. Hmmm...I understand "ice tea" (the -d

... } When I first started typesetting in 1977, I had to check the hyphenation } of every word, just to be sure it was correct. When I encountered such } barbaric hyphenations as "bibliog-raphy" and "biog-raphy," I read up on }

As one who typesets many languages and thus has to ... based on *pronunciation*, not on *morphology* as in other languages, You are right in maintaining that English hyphenation is inconsistent. (However, only sometimes correct in terms of

Dear all, I have some questions about how words are divided in dictionary entries. It seems to be an arbitrary business. Not entirely arbitrary, but certainly complicated. The Chicago Style Manual is an American source for rules, if I remember

I've been sitting here trying to work out my pronunciation, ... saying "high for nation". Not the same thing at all. Jumping in at midstream and mid-arguments: As one who typesets many languages and thus has to hyphenate words, I

I've been sitting here trying to work out my pronunciation, and I'm pretty sure that I break it as hy.phen.na.tion. ... pronounce it as hy.phe.na.tion, the result sounds as if I'm saying "high for nation". Not the same thing

Martin Ambuhl claims that the word hyphenation should be standardly pronounced as hy.phen.a.tion, with the syllabic divisons indicated. He further ... some speakers. Obviously, he does not know the maximum onsets principle, andprobably knows

A line-end hyphen in David Kertzer's book The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (an excellent history of ... Should the hyphen go there or between the "h" and the "s", thus: Roth-schild? I might have written the latter. The