{"issue":{"state":"open","pull_request":{"diff_url":null,"html_url":null,"patch_url":null},"user":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/871fc7f31f35cbb23671d4a72d706d9b?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","gravatar_id":"871fc7f31f35cbb23671d4a72d706d9b","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jknaus","login":"jknaus","id":1158067},"milestone":null,"labels":[],"assignee":null,"updated_at":"2011-10-29T14:31:36Z","closed_at":null,"comments":1,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/reutenauer/polyglossia/issues/2","body":"Hello,\r\n\r\nI just realized that the english word \"relative\" receives the wrong hyphenation by polyglossia. It's hyphenated rel-ative. That's wrong. According to the New Oxford Spelling Dictionary it's rela-tive.\r\n\r\nHere's a short example:\r\n\r\n\\documentclass[]{article}\r\n\\usepackage{polyglossia}\r\n\\setdefaultlanguage[variant=british, ordinalmonthday=false]{english}\r\n\\begin{document}\r\n\r\nrelative relative relative relative relative relative relative relative really relative relative relative relative relative relative  \r\n\r\n\\end{document}\r\n\r\nWhat's a proper workaround for this? Adding \\hyphenation{Rela\\-tive} inside the preamble didn't change anything for me. The only solution I found was to type rela\\-tive explicitly within the text. But that I would have to for every occurrence then...\r\n\r\nThanks for your help.\r\n\r\nJohannes","html_url":"https://github.com/reutenauer/polyglossia/issues/2","number":2,"title":"wrong hyphenation of english \"relative\"","id":2080094,"created_at":"2011-10-28T14:53:19Z"},"action":"created","comment":{"user":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a7fa52f9027bcf1c9c31a3de4747531b?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","gravatar_id":"a7fa52f9027bcf1c9c31a3de4747531b","url":"https://api.github.com/users/eg9","login":"eg9","id":302839},"updated_at":"2011-10-29T14:31:36Z","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/reutenauer/polyglossia/issues/comments/2565117","body":"The hyphenation patterns for British English give \"re-l-at-ive\", so this has nothing to do with Polyglossia. You can check this by running the following through LaTeX\r\n\r\n\\makeatletter\r\n\\language\\l@british\r\n\\makeatother\r\n\\showhyphens{relative}\r\n\\stop\r\n\r\nand the log file will say\r\n\r\nUnderfull \\hbox (badness 10000) detected at line 0\r\n[] \\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 re-l-at-ive\r\n\r\nIf you want to change the hyphenation, say \\hyphenation{rela-tive} after \\begin{document}, as before it the default language still has not been set (or, better, it's American English) and \\hyphenation commands add to the exception dictionary for the current language.","id":2565117,"created_at":"2011-10-29T14:31:36Z"}}