Timeline for Where can “porosimetry” be hyphenated?
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| Sep 19, 2016 at 7:28 | vote | accept | Stephen | ||
| Sep 18, 2016 at 16:02 | answer | added | Peter Shor | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 14:10 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Aug 19, 2016 at 13:37 | answer | added | Peter | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 22:03 | comment | added | ColleenV | Merriam-Webster does know porosimeter though, which as @MarkHubbard has pointed out has a lot of possible places to hyphenate: merriam-webster.com/dictionary/porosimeter | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 21:31 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | For what it's worth, even highly literate native speakers are likely to mispronounce this word and struggle with hyphenating it appropriately. | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 14:21 | comment | added | Mark Hubbard | Also, read this entry on EL&U if you are interested in longer answers: english.stackexchange.com/questions/385/… The answer by @Peter Shor is especially useful. If Mr. Shor disagrees with my comment above, I'll take it down and defer to him. | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 14:03 | comment | added | Mark Hubbard | Thanks to the abundance of vowels, you could safely hyphenate it after either o, the i (as shown), the m (as shown), or even the e without confusing the reader in the least. It's not a word one uses in everyday speech, so it's doubtful anyone would challenge your publisher for breaking the word at any point that is needed for space that still makes sense. The so-called rules for hyphenation are somewhat, uhm, flexible in the history of English printing, to say the least. Follow a dictionary source for common words, but create your own preference(s) in this case. | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 13:34 | history | asked | Stephen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |