Everday Rhetoric (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...June 12, 1915 5 The hyphen is used for syllabication. It is an especially helpful mark when it is necessary to put a portion of a word at the end of one line and the remainder at the beginning of the next. Of course a word should never be so divided save between syllables. Sometimes it is not easy, as we listen to our pronunciation, to tell just what letters are included in a syllable; however the following conventions are always observed. (a) The division of a word may properly follow a prefix or precede a suffix. With the changing ideals and the elevation of the masses, the classes are correspondingly lowered, so it is of the utmost importance that the artistic standard should not be lowered. Century Magazine, June 1915, p. 195 This discussion is not meant to be on the relative merits or obvious shortcomings of the new art or on the superiority of the old. Century Magazine, June 1915, p. 195 (b) The division of a word may properly occur between double consonants. After visiting the Norwegian cot-tage I had to see a new marvel. Century Magazine June 1915, p. 233 (c) Monosyllables are never divisible. Thus chur-could not end one line and ch begin the next. Nor can a word of more than one syllable be separated into unpronounceable combinations, as for instance excl-aim. It is worth noting also that it is a printer's convention never to divide a word between syllables one of which contains but a single letter. Thus about cannot be written a-bout, nor many man-y. Parentheses 1 Parentheses have in common with the dash the function of indicating a momentary interruption in the thought and syntax of a sentence. There is however this distinction: thought within parentheses is in general regarded as a little less closely connected with the thought of the main state...