Talk:carceral
Add topicLatest comment: 5 years ago by Sgconlaw in topic Hyphenation
Hyphenation
[edit]@Hazarasp: hyphenation is generally applied either according to the etymological elements of a word ("car‧cer‧al": Latin carcer + -al; my preference), or according to its syllables ("car‧ce‧ral"), or sometimes a combination of both. But which format does "carce‧ral" follow? "Carce-" is clearly two syllables. — SGconlaw (talk) 03:00, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
Oh, are you hyphenating according to /ˈkɑːsɹl̩/? In that case it should be "car‧ceral". — SGconlaw (talk) 03:04, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, I am hyphenating according to that pronunciation. "carce‧ral" makes more sense for that pronunciation since it would probably be /ˈkɑːs.ɹl̩/, not /ˈkɑː.sɹl̩/ (because /sɹ/ is an illegal onset cluster in English except for in loans such as Sri Lanka; even disregarding that, there is a cross-language tendency to split medial consonant clusters between syllables).
- --Hazarasp (talk · contributions) 03:53, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Hmmm, OK. It seems quite unnatural to me to say "CARS-rl" rather than "CAR-srl" but I take your point. — SGconlaw (talk) 04:36, 21 March 2019 (UTC)