Re: Cambodia v. Kampuchea

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:42:06 GMT

John Atkinson wrote:
>
> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote...
>
> > John Atkinson wrote:
> >
> > > Intuitively, putting the syllable break before the /g/ (/ey.gyuw/ and
> > > /a:.gyuw/) sounds "better" to me, presumably because the preceding vowel
> is
> > > "long". This coincides with where the orthographic rule puts it, I
> think,
> >
> > The orthographic rule is never to hyphenate before or after a single
> > letter ...
>
> Correct, I forgot that. But it also forbids <ag-ue> doesn't it?

I just typesetted a book for a British publisher, and the document
processing program did normal American hyphenation, and they marked many
of the hyphens to change to patterns that would be utterly unacceptable
in the US (because they would mislead as to pronunciation: inte- rior to
change to inter- ior). Fortunately, they said this was a low priority,
and I mentioned that changing this one might cause one in another line
that they wouldn't like any better.

So I can't say how British hyphenation works (the author noted that he
had never been taught anything in school about hyphenation, whereas we
drilled it from about 3rd grade or so).

But you could only do ag- ue if the syllabification were /'&g.yuw/; but
the word is /'ey.gyuw/. (Or /ey.'gyuw/??) 

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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net