DIVISION OF WORDS

I. English

Such divisions as en-, de-, or in- to be allowed only in very narrow measures, and there exceptionally.

Disyllables, as ‘into’, ‘until’, &c., are only to be divided in very narrow measures.

The following divisions to be preferred:

abun-danceappli-cablecorre-spon-dencedepen-dentdimin-ishdis-connect

estab-lish-mentimpor-tanceinter-estminis-terpun-ishrespon-dent

Avoid such divisions as—

star-vation,gene-ration,

obser-vation,imagi-nation,

exal-tation,origi-nally;

but put starva-tion, &c.

The principle is that the part of the word left at the end of a line should suggest the part commencing the next line. Thus the word ‘happiness’ should be divided happi-ness,nothap-piness.[46]

Roman-ism, Puritan-ism; but Agnosti-cism, Catholi-cism, criti-cism, fanati-cism, tauto-logism, witti-cism, &c.

The terminations -cial, -cian, -cious, -sion, -tion should not be divided when forming one sound, as in so-cial, Gre-cian, pugna-cious, condescen-sion, forma-tion.

Atmo-sphere, micro-scope, philo-sophy, tele-phone, tele-scope, should have only this division. But always print episco-pal (not epi-scopal), &c.[47]

A divided word should not end a page, if it is possible to avoid it.

II. Some Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Words

Italian.—Divide si-gnore (gn =niin ‘mania’), trava-gliare (gli =lliin ‘William’), tra-scinare (sci =shiin ‘shin’), i.e. take over gn, gl, sci. In such a case as ‘all’ uomo’ Italians divide ‘al-l’ uomo’ when occasion arises.[48]

Portuguese.—Divide se-nhor (nh =niin ‘mania’), bata-lha (lh =lliin ‘William’), i.e. take over nh, ll.

Spanish.—Divide se-ñora (ñ =niin ‘mania’), maravi-lloso (ll =lliin ‘William’), i.e. take over ñ, ll.

III.

For the division of French words, seep. 81; German,p. 90; Latin,p. 95; and Greek,p. 97.


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