L INE E NDS When words don’t t onto the lines of paper, they are sometimes broken into pieces placed at the end of one line and the beginning of the next (as in many lines in this book. A hyphen is placed at the end of the last fragment of the word at the end of a line to indicate that the rest of the word is at the beginning of the next line. Words are broken only at the ends of syllables or where hyphens naturally occur in them. If possible, it is best to avoid introducing a line-ending hyphen into a word or string of words that already has one or more hyphens in it. One-syllable words are not divided over lines, nor are words with single-letter syllables at their beginning or end broken at those points (for example, don’t break wordy and leave a hanging “y” at the beginning of a line).
