Strange hyphenation with English (UK)

[Daniel]

On 2023-09-09 23:02, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 9/9/23 14:41, Daniel wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I noticed that setting "English (UK)" as language under Document 
>> Settings, leads to some strange hyphenation. For example, "import-ant" 
>> and "theor-ethical". Is that a common issue with that language 
>> dictionary or do I have a faulty setup?
> 
> The latter, assuming you mean "theor-etical", looks acceptable to me, if 
> not ideal. The former is apparently wrong, according to what I looked up 
> online, though it actually sounds right to me. Or, perhaps better, 
> morphologically, it feels right.
> 
> I find I do sometimes have to override LaTeX's own choices in final 
> preparation of documents.
> 
> Riki

I see, I wasn't aware that hyphenation is a style choice in English. (In 
German there are fixed rules.)

How do I override LaTeX's choices? I tried

\hyphenation{im-por-tant the-o-re-ti-cal}

But that seemed not to have helped.

Daniel