Why would you just split a word, and then leave it that way? First you split, and then you insert.

Ah, but they are two separate processes and the Goldwyn quote given in tsuwm's link does only the former.

Not to mention that the original Greek means an "act of cutting".

Or, that is, to quote our own ledasdottir and an early document cited by David Crystal in his Encyclopedia of the English Language a nother*, close quote, issue.


*Once again Ænigma sides with you, so I rest my case.