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Example sentences for: hyphenation
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No hyphenation algorithm has been invented to control rivers of white space, nor to distinguish between pro-ject (verb) and proj-ect (noun, unless one is Canadian).
The centered dots mark hyphenation points; the standard calls for a dot between the n and the a , not the o and the n . Little confidence is inspired by the presence of three errors (one appearing twice) in only 12 words of information.
No comment is made about differences in hyphenation that result from differences or variants in pronunciation.
The review of the new Random House Webster Dictionary [ XVIII, 1] gave space to the matter of inconsistent hyphenation, which I appreciated, and I also agreed with the reviewer's comments regarding the admittance of so-called naughty bits into the dictionary.
I devised what I thought was a useful system for showing syllabification of boldface words in the Collins English Dictionary: places where hyphens could occur were marked by a tiny plus sign (except for spelling hyphens, which always permitted end-of-line hyphens); places that marked syllable breaks but where hyphenation was avoided, were marked by a centered dot: