Correct hyphenation for respectively

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Karsten Stenz - 29 Jul 2005 19:17 GMT

Can someone tell me what the correct hyphenation for the word "respectively"
is?

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John Hall - 29 Jul 2005 19:54 GMT

>Can someone tell me what the correct hyphenation for the word "respectively"
>is?

It's not hyphenated.

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Peter Duncanson - 29 Jul 2005 20:11 GMT

>>Can someone tell me what the correct hyphenation for the word "respectively"
>>is?
>
>It's not hyphenated.

I assumed that the question was about where to break and hyphenate the word
at the end of a line.

There are, to my mind, two places where it could be hyphenated:
"res-pect-ively".

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Peter Duncanson - 29 Jul 2005 20:21 GMT

>There are, to my mind, two places where it could be hyphenated:
>"res-pect-ively".

Sorry I meant to type: "re-spect-ively".

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David - 29 Jul 2005 21:10 GMT

> >There are, to my mind, two places where it could be hyphenated:
> >"res-pect-ively".

> Sorry I meant to type: "re-spect-ively".

How about "respective-ly"?

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Erick Andrews - 30 Jul 2005 20:22 GMT

> >There are, to my mind, two places where it could be hyphenated:
> >"res-pect-ively".
>
> Sorry I meant to type: "re-spect-ively".

I read Lynn Truss' (or less common now, Truss's) book last year,
the best seller with the Panda on the cover.

If she did, I don't recall her discussing any rules for hyphenation, and
if she did, I'd expect such rules to be based on syllable/phonetics,
but I'd also think that dictionaries may vary.

I'd accept your breakdown above, or possibly "re-spect-ive-ly",
or maybe even "re-spec-tive-ly"? Dunno pre-cise-ly.

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John Hall - 30 Jul 2005 21:11 GMT

>I read Lynn Truss' (or less common now, Truss's) book last year,
>the best seller with the Panda on the cover.
>
>If she did, I don't recall her discussing any rules for hyphenation, and
>if she did, I'd expect such rules to be based on syllable/phonetics,
>but I'd also think that dictionaries may vary.

I'm not sure whether the reported appearances of "leg-end" and
"the-rapist" in pieces of text are genuine.

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Erick Andrews - 30 Jul 2005 21:42 GMT

> >I read Lynn Truss' (or less common now, Truss's) book last year,
> >the best seller with the Panda on the cover.
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> I'm not sure whether the reported appearances of "leg-end" and
> "the-rapist" in pieces of text are genuine.

Sorry, John, I don't follow. Who's text do you refer to?

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John Hall - 30 Jul 2005 21:59 GMT

>> >I read Lynn Truss' (or less common now, Truss's) book last year,
>> >the best seller with the Panda on the cover.
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>
>Sorry, John, I don't follow. Who's text do you refer to?

Nobody's in particular. The story goes that the unfortunate instances of
hyphenation that I described have actually appeared in print, without
specific instances being given. (Or if specific instances _were_ given,
then I can't remember what theyb were.)

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John Briggs - 31 Jul 2005 17:08 GMT

>>> I read Lynn Truss' (or less common now, Truss's) book last year,
>>> the best seller with the Panda on the cover.
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>
> Sorry, John, I don't follow. Who's text do you refer to?

Whose text?

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Erick Andrews - 31 Jul 2005 20:57 GMT

> >>> I read Lynn Truss' (or less common now, Truss's) book last year,
> >>> the best seller with the Panda on the cover.
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>
> Whose text?

Thnaks for the correction.

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Correct hyphenation for respectively