> I've been persuaded that the way to go is to continue to separate the > "exceptional" hyphenations as a list, and not try to make them into a > new "language", although I don't know of any natural language group that > would likely treat these in any way *except* according to etymology.
One of the advantages of luatex is you can load patterns (not only exceptions) in run time. In other words, there is no need for a new language. Sadly, this is not a solution in pdftex. Javier
