27. While certain words phrase so readily that it may be said they invite the writer to phrase them, others, in order to be perfectly legible, require to stand alone. Among the class of words to be phrased with great caution, because in general they need isolation to make them legible, are the following:

(a.) Unique or uncommon words, including proper names. Especially should rare words of long outlines be phrased sparingly. When in phrases such words are combined with others, the reader is often puzzled to guess where a particular word-outline begins or ends. With an unfamiliar word, isolation is generally necessary for legibility, while, on the contrary, familiar and especially colloquial words are often more legible when written in groups than singly. It should be added, however, that a word unfamiliar when first encountered may by repetition, even during the course of a single brief speech, become familiar enough to be freely phrased.

(6.) Words which ordinarily require distinctive position to make them legible cannot in general be used in a phrase except at the beginning, unless some method of distinction other than position - such, for instance, as vocalization - be resorted to. The subject of position as a means of word-distinction will be fully treated in a later chapter.

(c.) Incomplete outlines, unless the words represented be very familiar, are phrased less freely and more cautiously than words in which all the consonants are expressed, because in general the former are not intrinsically so legible as the latter. If, for instance, one should join the words my influence, the phrase, on account of the use of the word influence, would probably not be legible, while my reasons would be be readily recognized.