Re: [tex-hyphen] Evolving usage for UK hyphenation patterns

[Philip Taylor (RHUoL)]

Dominik Wujastyk wrote: [...] The breaks made by the British TeX patterns normally agree with The Oxford Minidictionary of Spelling and Word-Division (1990).  What I have now noticed is that The New Oxford Spelling Dictionary (2014) does not agree with the 1990 Minidictionary in quite a lot of cases.  I haven't checked the online OED, which might be what my author is looking at. I'm not sure what - if anything - to do about this.  I guess that over 30 years, Oxford's ideas about hyphen breaks have changed, and that's what we're now seeing in the 2014 Spelling Dictionary.  Unfortunately, the introduction of the 2014 work doesn't explain anything or comment on this issue. IMVHO, the only useful thing we could do is to issue an optional revised exceptions list.  Whether we want to invest the time and effort that that would require is, IMHO, moot. ** Phil.