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Hamilton, Frederick William, 1860-

"Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation"

What did the early printers do when the words did not fit the line, and
why?
33. What practice came into use later?
34. What methods of doing this have been devised?
35. What considerations govern practice in this regard?
36. Give two systems of division which have been proposed.
37. What is the general rule for division?
38. What is the rule about vowels?
39. What is the rule about two consonants?
40. What is the rule about three consonants?
41. What should you do with a single consonant between two vowels?
42. How should you treat diphthongs?
43. What is the rule for words compounded with a prefix?
44. What should be done with the terminations _-able_, _-ible_, _-tion_,
_-cial_, _-tive_, _-ive_, and _-sion_?
45. What should be done with the terminations _-ing_, _-en_, _-ed_, _-er_,
and _-est_, and the plural _-es_?
46. What letters should not end a line?
47. How are adjectives in _ical_ treated?
48. How are derivatives of words ending in _-t_ treated?
49. What is the special rule about _c_ and _g_?
50. What is the rule about _qu_, and why?
51. What is the rule about _nothing_?
52. What is the rule about words of four letters?
53. How should you treat words of five or six letters?
54. What should be avoided in wide measures?
55. How should you treat words of two syllables pronounced as one?
56. How should hyphenated compounds be treated?
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