In a message dated 2001-02-12 8:54:10 Pacific Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Also, I would add
>  
>  - "syllablization" (is that a word?) as a third problem (for breaking words
>  more nicely into lines), it would rank in difficulty somewhere between word
>  breaking and root extraction.

I think the canonical word is "syllabification," but from a word-inventing 
perspective, I agree with Jarkko's first instinct.  The suffix "-ize" seems 
more appropriate to the process being discussed than "-fy".

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California

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