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Every language has different rules for where to set the hyphens, if they even have hyphens at all! English, Dutch, Cherokee, Spanish, and Cree are all different

Reading Time: 6 minutesThere’s a newish CSS feature called hyphens that specifies how you want words to be hyphenated when the text wraps.

But if you use it, you’re going to need to make sure you’re also correctly identifying the language. And to understand why that matters, we need to talk about words and syllables.