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[deckardcanine]

I'm pretty sure that if you hyphenate a word to fit it on two lines, you're supposed to break it between syllables. You know, maximum readability.

The Express today hyphenates "globetrotting" between the first O and the B. I can forgive the small paper with extra-tight deadlines -- it's not like a program would catch a mistake like this -- but I find it unduly amusing. Is there an alternate four-syllable pronunciation?

...There is now.

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[mwalimu.livejournal.com]

My ex-wife used to do typesetting when she worked as a journalist. She noticed that the typesetter would sometimes hyphenate words in weird places like that. At first when she it doing that she would try to find some way to rephrase the sentence to get rid of the weird hyphenation, but it wasn't long before she decided it was more trouble than it was worth and just let the typesetter do whatever it was going to do.