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Subject:Re: [CE-L] TOOLS: British word breaks From:Roger Jones <Roger -dot- Jones -at- RJPC -dot- DEMON -dot- CO -dot- UK> Date:Sat, 3 Oct 1998 09:50:19 -0800
At 07:49 03/10/98 +0200, you wrote:
>At 9:16 PM -0500 2/10/98, Terry Yokota wrote:
>>Something that I'm interested in, more for interest's sake than for a
>>current project, is to find a dictionary that would show British word
>>breaks, since my general impression is that British English breaks words
>>more by etymology than by current pronunciation standards, as seems to be
>>the case with American English.
>>
>>Does anyone have a recommendation for me, and would it be easily available
>>here in the States?
>
>I use the _Oxford Minidictionary of Spelling_, comp. R.E. Allen (Oxford
>University Press, 1986). It's very small, shows word-divisions, gives no
>definitions, and never leaves my desk - hyphenation is always set to manual
>on my software!
>Bye,
> Roger
roger -at- cricket -dot- org
Terry
I swear by -- never at -- the Collins English Spelling Dictionary
(HarperCollins, 1993, 0 00 433634-8) which claims "more words [146,000]
than any other spelling dictionary and complete guide to hyphenation". It
"shows all variant and US spellings" and includes geographical names, other
proper names and all derived words. Its 650 pages (containing no
definitions) cost me just £5.99/$10.00 a year ago.
I am taking the liberty of cross posting this to the Framers and TECHWR-L
groups as I haven't seen the question posed before and I'm sure some
members of those groups will find this information useful. In return, can
our North American cousins point us to equivalent sources from their side
of the Pond, please?
Rant: default hyphenation in DTP programs is not good, and PageMaker's lack
of controls makes it the worst. Long live manual hyphenation.
Perhaps those named Roger have an unhealthy interest in hyphenation . . .
All the best
Roger Jones, Publisher
Publishing -at- rjpc -dot- demon -dot- co -dot- uk
