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Example sentences for: hyphenation
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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:
My only cavil is with the compositor's (editor's, and proofreader's) apparent ignorance of the accepted hyphenation of the word English : after, not before the -g-.
No comment is made about differences in hyphenation that result from differences or variants in pronunciation.
I have been entertained by the discussions of computerized hyphenation [ XVI, 4; XVII, 3].
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.