Talk:carceral

Hyphenation

 * hyphenation is generally applied either according to the etymological elements of a word ("": Latin carcer + -al; my preference), or according to its syllables (""), or sometimes a combination of both. But which format does "" follow? "Carce-" is clearly two syllables. — SGconlaw (talk) 03:00, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Oh, are you hyphenating according to ? In that case it should be "". — SGconlaw (talk) 03:04, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, I am hyphenating according to that pronunciation. "" makes more sense for that pronunciation since it would probably be, not (because  is an illegal onset cluster in English except for in loans such as ; 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)