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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dominik Wujastyk wrote:<br>
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          The breaks made by the British TeX patterns normally agree
          with<span id="gmail-cell-181-contents"
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              gmail-before_actions"> <em>The Oxford Minidictionary of
                Spelling and Word-Division</em> (1990).  What I have now
              noticed is that</span></span> <span
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              class="gmail-label gmail-before_actions"><em>The New
                Oxford Spelling Dictionary</em> (2014) does not agree
              with the 1990 <i>Minidictionary</i> in quite a lot of
              cases.</span></span>  I haven't checked the online OED,
          which might be what my author is looking at.<br>
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        <div style="font-family: trebuchet\ ms, sans-serif; font-size:
          small; display: inline;" class="gmail_default">I'm not sure
          what - if anything - to do about this.  I guess that over 30
          years, Oxford's ideas about hyphen breaks have changed, and
          that's what we're now seeing in the 2014 <i>Spelling
            Dictionary</i>.  Unfortunately, the introduction of the 2014
          work doesn't explain anything or comment on this issue.<br>
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    IMVHO, the only useful thing we <i>could</i> do is to issue an
    optional revised exceptions list.  Whether we want to invest the
    time and effort that that would require is, IMHO, moot.<br>
    ** Phil.<br>
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