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Karsten Stenz
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:17 am
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Can someone tell me what the correct hyphenation for the word "respectively"
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John Hall
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:54 am
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In article <42ea72c1_1@news.arcor-ip.de>,
Karsten Stenz <Stenz@nospam.de> writes:
| Quote: | Can someone tell me what the correct hyphenation for the word "respectively"
is?
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It's not hyphenated.
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Peter Duncanson
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:11 am
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:54:46 +0100, John Hall <nospam_nov03@jhall.co.uk>
wrote:
| Quote: | In article <42ea72c1_1@news.arcor-ip.de>,
Karsten Stenz <Stenz@nospam.de> writes:
Can someone tell me what the correct hyphenation for the word "respectively"
is?
It's not hyphenated.
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I assumed that the question was about where to break and hyphenate the word
at the end of a line.
There are, to my mind, two places where it could be hyphenated:
"res-pect-ively".
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Peter Duncanson
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:21 am
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:11:59 +0100, Peter Duncanson
<mail@peterduncanson.net> wrote:
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There are, to my mind, two places where it could be hyphenated:
"res-pect-ively".
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Sorry I meant to type: "re-spect-ively".
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David
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:10 am
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In article <qb0le1dcrmrd80p78e55grmkroms4giltb@4ax.com>,
Peter Duncanson <mail@peterduncanson.net> wrote:
| Quote: | On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:11:59 +0100, Peter Duncanson
mail@peterduncanson.net> wrote:
There are, to my mind, two places where it could be hyphenated:
"res-pect-ively".
Sorry I meant to type: "re-spect-ively".
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How about "respective-ly"?
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Erick Andrews
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 1:22 am
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:21:06 UTC, Peter Duncanson <mail@peterduncanson.net> wrote:
| Quote: | On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:11:59 +0100, Peter Duncanson
mail@peterduncanson.net> wrote:
There are, to my mind, two places where it could be hyphenated:
"res-pect-ively".
Sorry I meant to type: "re-spect-ively".
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I read Lynn Truss' (or less common now, Truss's) book last year,
the best seller with the Panda on the cover.
If she did, I don't recall her discussing any rules for hyphenation, and
if she did, I'd expect such rules to be based on syllable/phonetics,
but I'd also think that dictionaries may vary.
I'd accept your breakdown above, or possibly "re-spect-ive-ly",
or maybe even "re-spec-tive-ly"? Dunno pre-cise-ly.
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Erick Andrews
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John Hall
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:11 am
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In article <sGi8lzkop2Rq-pn2-YMbiPNZ42DKK@HAL9000>,
Erick Andrews <eandrews@bogusstar.net> writes:
| Quote: | I read Lynn Truss' (or less common now, Truss's) book last year,
the best seller with the Panda on the cover.
If she did, I don't recall her discussing any rules for hyphenation, and
if she did, I'd expect such rules to be based on syllable/phonetics,
but I'd also think that dictionaries may vary.
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I'm not sure whether the reported appearances of "leg-end" and
"the-rapist" in pieces of text are genuine.
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Erick Andrews
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:42 am
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On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:11:19 UTC, John Hall <nospam_nov03@jhall.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | In article <sGi8lzkop2Rq-pn2-YMbiPNZ42DKK@HAL9000>,
Erick Andrews <eandrews@bogusstar.net> writes:
I read Lynn Truss' (or less common now, Truss's) book last year,
the best seller with the Panda on the cover.
If she did, I don't recall her discussing any rules for hyphenation, and
if she did, I'd expect such rules to be based on syllable/phonetics,
but I'd also think that dictionaries may vary.
I'm not sure whether the reported appearances of "leg-end" and
"the-rapist" in pieces of text are genuine.
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Sorry, John, I don't follow. Who's text do you refer to?
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Erick Andrews
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John Hall
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:59 am
Post subject: Re: Correct hyphenation for respectively |
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In article <sGi8lzkop2Rq-pn2-6llMpRpgwDZS@HAL9000>,
Erick Andrews <eandrews@bogusstar.net> writes:
| Quote: | On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:11:19 UTC, John Hall <nospam_nov03@jhall.co.uk> wrote:
In article <sGi8lzkop2Rq-pn2-YMbiPNZ42DKK@HAL9000>,
Erick Andrews <eandrews@bogusstar.net> writes:
I read Lynn Truss' (or less common now, Truss's) book last year,
the best seller with the Panda on the cover.
If she did, I don't recall her discussing any rules for hyphenation, and
if she did, I'd expect such rules to be based on syllable/phonetics,
but I'd also think that dictionaries may vary.
I'm not sure whether the reported appearances of "leg-end" and
"the-rapist" in pieces of text are genuine.
Sorry, John, I don't follow. Who's text do you refer to?
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Nobody's in particular. The story goes that the unfortunate instances of
hyphenation that I described have actually appeared in print, without
specific instances being given. (Or if specific instances _were_ given,
then I can't remember what theyb were.)
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John Briggs
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:08 pm
Post subject: Re: Correct hyphenation for respectively |
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Erick Andrews wrote:
| Quote: | On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:11:19 UTC, John Hall
nospam_nov03@jhall.co.uk> wrote:
In article <sGi8lzkop2Rq-pn2-YMbiPNZ42DKK@HAL9000>,
Erick Andrews <eandrews@bogusstar.net> writes:
I read Lynn Truss' (or less common now, Truss's) book last year,
the best seller with the Panda on the cover.
If she did, I don't recall her discussing any rules for
hyphenation, and if she did, I'd expect such rules to be based on
syllable/phonetics, but I'd also think that dictionaries may vary.
I'm not sure whether the reported appearances of "leg-end" and
"the-rapist" in pieces of text are genuine.
Sorry, John, I don't follow. Who's text do you refer to?
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Whose text?
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Erick Andrews
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 1:57 am
Post subject: Re: Correct hyphenation for respectively |
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On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:08:31 UTC, "John Briggs" <john.briggs4@ntlworld.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Erick Andrews wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:11:19 UTC, John Hall
nospam_nov03@jhall.co.uk> wrote:
In article <sGi8lzkop2Rq-pn2-YMbiPNZ42DKK@HAL9000>,
Erick Andrews <eandrews@bogusstar.net> writes:
I read Lynn Truss' (or less common now, Truss's) book last year,
the best seller with the Panda on the cover.
If she did, I don't recall her discussing any rules for
hyphenation, and if she did, I'd expect such rules to be based on
syllable/phonetics, but I'd also think that dictionaries may vary.
I'm not sure whether the reported appearances of "leg-end" and
"the-rapist" in pieces of text are genuine.
Sorry, John, I don't follow. Who's text do you refer to?
Whose text?
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Thnaks for the correction.
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Erick Andrews
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