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British and American hyphenation rules differ. American hyphenation is at syllable boundaries while British hyphenation keeps etymological divisions together. A
by dhosek 4y ago
British and American hyphenation rules differ. American hyphenation is at syllable boundaries while British hyphenation keeps etymological divisions together. And while typo-graphy might seem better than ty-pog-ra-phy, helico-pter comes across as a bit odd to most readers’ eyes.
- cvoss 4y agoWell, the exact locations of syllable boundaries are not always universally agreed upon. Here is one dictionary's entry for "typography" [1] which claims that US speakers break it up as ty-po-gra-phy while British speakers break it up as ty-pog-ra-phy. In light of that, both the American rule (syllable boundary + American pronunciation) and British rule (morpheme boundary) should put a break in the same place: typo-graphy and not typog-raphy. [1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/typography https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/typog...
- dhosek 4y agoOxford New American dictionary (on my Mac): ty·pog·ra·phy Random House College dictionary (print): ty·pog·ra·phy Merriam-Webster (online, the print edition is what the TUG hyphenation exception list uses as its definitive authority): ty· pog· ra· phy I published a typography magazine in the late 1990s, and never once heard a single person, American or otherwise, pronounce it the way Cambridge claims Americans do.
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