Hyphenation with words containing capital letters

Language Log 2017-03-14

Summary:

A truly startling (and surely unintended) hyphenation in the print edition of The Economist (March 11th) suggests that some updating of word-breaking algorithms is in order in the light of the fairly recent practice of inventing product and brand names that have word-internal upper-case letters. An article about juvenile delinquency, reporting that kids are less […]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=31565

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Tags:

orthography

Authors:

Geoffrey K. Pullum

Date tagged:

03/14/2017, 18:33

Date published:

03/13/2017, 04:43