[tex-hyphen] Dictio-nary ?

[Doug McKenna]

One dictionary I consulted was Random House Unabridged 2nd Edition (circa 1983).  I also consulted with a former editor who's a long-time good usage writing maven, who agreed that it would not be right to hyphenate "dictionary" with "dictio-" at the end of a line.  For other similar words, TeX's hyphenation databases would seem to agree:

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Dictionary, and dictionary, dictionary, dictionary?

Visionary, and visionary, and visionary, visionary.

Evolutionary, evolutionary, volution, evolutionary.

Revolutionary, evolution, evolution, revolutionary.

Foobar, foo, bar, evolution, counterrevolutionary.

Inflationary, inflationary, inflationary, inflationary.

Missionary, missionary, a missionary, missionary.

Reversionary, reversion, reversionary, reversionary.

Cautionary, a cautionary, cautionary, cautionary.

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So what is Webster's rationale for the difference?  It seems plainly incorrect.


Doug McKenna