"Strange" Behaviour about hypher HOT 5 CLOSED

The hyphenation patterns aren't perfect and silent seems to yield wrong results. You are using the crate correctly.

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Can I help somehow? :)

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I don't think there's much we can do here, since the hyphenation patterns are just taken from TeX. Many hyphenation engines use these patterns, which is also why you can observe the same problem here: https://www.hyphenation24.com/word/silent/

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I think syllables may be a misnomer?

Hyphenation boundaries do not always coincide with boundaries between actual syllables. There can be other reasons for why hyphenation is or isn't desirable (like ambiguity). Also, the number of syllables can even depend on dialect.

In this case babel (which uses the same hyphenation patterns) yields

for US english, but

for UK english (the line is from \usepackage{showhyphens} and indicates a hyphenation boundary).

I think this is intentional.

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I just noticed that hypher seems to only have US english and not UK english though.

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