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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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