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General Motors made an announcement Monday involving two important words, one hyphenated, unlikely to show up in any of its forthcoming TV commercials.
1. The headword is syllabified in W , not in L . In older dictionaries the words are syllabified mainly to help in pronouncing them; latterly, syllabication has been used largely to find where a word can be hyphenated at the end of a line of text, though, judging by today's newspapers and magazines, one would be sore put to believe that a dictionary had ever been within the grasp of their editors, proofreaders, or the programmers who wrote the hyphenation programs for the automatic typesetting many of them now employ.
After all, the use of a hyphen in adverb/adjective compounds is a matter of style, which can be described in a rule: in position before a noun, compounds with well --indeed, any not ending in - ly --like well-heeled, well-known, well-thought-out , are hyphenated, as in well-heeled gambler, well-known man-about-town, a well-thought-out plan ; but when they are in predicative position, as in Is she well heeled enough to sit in on our game?
As in other British dictionaries, headwords are not syllabified, so one cannot use dictionaries in England to determine where a word may be conventionally hyphenated.
[In the early 1960s I designed a hyphenation program (for automatic typesetting) based on a logic of prefix-root-suffix combined with a table look-up (for anomalies: for instance, before analysis of a word ending in -ing , the word would be checked against a list including thing, bring, string , and other words that could not be hyphenated).
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