English (US) hyphenation is broken
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The automatic hyphenation for English language texts appears to generate incorrect results more often than correct. The most obvious errors occur when it divides one-syllable words ("there", "like", "find", "paid", "years"), but it also often splits on the wrong side of a dividing consonant ("chi-ldren", "photog-raph", "certific-ation", "revea-ling"). I understand that developing and testing rules for non-native languages can be difficult, and would be willing to volunteer help either in creating or testing dictionary/rulesets for English.
For small-screen devices such as smart-phones I consider hyphenation to be a necessity, and quality of implementation is a major differentiator between eReader implementations.
I set Hyphenation in Setting to None and that didn't work. So I tried Greek hyphanation and that solved the problem because there are no Greek words in my english .txt file.