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John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Mon, 26 May 2008 07:00 UTC

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To: Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org>
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Subject: Re: [Ltru] Macrolanguage usage
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Doug Ewell scripsit:

> Exactly.  There is no difference that I'm aware of between hyphenation 
> rules in any variety of English.  

Actually en-US and en-GB do have different hyphenation patterns, based
on pronunciation vs. etymology (very roughly): a well-known example is
"prog-ress" vs. "pro-gress".

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