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>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.
Neither have I!
>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.
You've got it right! This is it!
Christiane
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