syllabication.dita

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    <title>Syllabication</title>
    <shortdesc>If there is room at the end of a line for one or more syllables of a word, but not
        for the whole word, divide the word, unless this involves cutting off only a single letter,
        or cutting off only two letters of a long word.</shortdesc>
    <conbody>
        <p>No hard and fast rule for all words can be laid down. The principles most frequently
            applicable are:</p>
        <ol>
            <li>Divide the word according to its formation: <p>know-ledge (not knowl-edge);
                    Shake-speare (not Shakes-peare); de-scribe (not des-cribe); atmo-sphere (not
                    atmos-phere);</p></li>
            <li>Divide “on the vowel: <p>”edi-ble (not ed-ible); propo-sition; ordi-nary; espe-cial;
                    reli-gious; oppo-nents; regu-lar; classi-fi-ca-tion (three divisions allowable);
                    deco-rative; presi-dent;</p></li>
            <li>Divide between double letters, unless they come at the end of the simple form of the
                    word:<p>Apen-nines; Cincin-nati; refer-ring; but tell-ing.</p></li>
            <li>Do not divide before final -ed if the e is silent:<p>treat-ed (but not roam-ed or
                    nam-ed).</p>
                <p>The treatment of consonants in combination is best shown from examples:</p>
                <lines>
                    for-tune; pic-ture; sin-gle; presump-tuous; illus-tration; sub-stan-tial
                    (either division); indus-try; instruc-tion; sug-ges-tion; incen-diary.
                    </lines>
                <p>The student will do well to examine the syllable-division in a number of pages of
                    any carefully printed book.</p>
            </li>
        </ol>
    </conbody>
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