Christopher BJ Smith wrote: [snip]
Irrelevant, IMHO.
Singers who read English will know how to pronounce it properly, and the choral director will help in the ambiguous cases, and it will be sung somewhat differently by choruses than by soloists in any case. In the interests of preserving a literate English population, I exhort you to use correct hyphenation.
And where the dictionaries themselves don't agree, what should we do?
And what about the notion that languages (except Latin) aren't fixed, rigid, never-changing monoliths, but rather, living, changing tools which alter as time passes to continue to fit the needs of the people?
While I can understand that maintaining fixed rules of hyphenation might help some people have an easier time making engraving decisions, I also can't understand how maintaining fixed rules of hyphenation in choral music will "preserve a literate English population."
After all, we are talking about people reading the music, aren't we? Aren't they already literate?
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