I agree with you AlpheccaStars. I offered 'isomorphs', meaning 'same shape' as applicable to both the 'shape' or orthography of text, and the 'shape' of speech morphemes. Your answer is more applicable to

A.u.e: Does anyone else have these two different "-ire"s? Consciously or unconsciously? With the same distribution as mine or different? When I come to think about it, it appears that words in your first list are slightly shorter sounds.

... } 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

The maximum onsets principle isn't universally accepted. See http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/syllabif.htm which describes the syllibification principles used for theLongman Pronunciation Dictionary. Thank you for your reply,Jonathan. But

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

The maximum onsets principle isn't universally accepted. See http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/syllabif.htm which describes the syllibification principles used for the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Thank you for your reply,Jonathan. But

I go for the morpheme boundary. But let's remember that Fowler pointed out that 'hyphening' was a better word anyhow. Mike.

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