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Subject:Re: What's a widow? From:"Parks, Beverly L." <parksb -at- HUACHUCA-EMH7 -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Fri, 13 Sep 1996 12:00:00 MST
Eileen, I think you're just plain crazy. ;-)
I've never heard or read of allowing a single word orphan just because it
has a certain number of syllables. That was most likely a house rule.
Widows, I believe, are when the first line of a paragraph gets stranded
at the bottom of a page. Orphans are when the last line of a paragraph
gets "pushed off" to the top of the following page. I hope I don't have
this backwards.... 8-(
Bev Parks
parksb -at- huachuca-emh7 -dot- army -dot- mil
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