Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-text] Rename `text-wrap-style: avoid-orphans` (#11283)

> Would changing the value to avoid-runts, or possibly avoid-leading-runts and avoid-trailing-runts, address the concerns raised?

Yes, the Wikipedia entry also mentions this word for this specific case. I did encounter it there for the first time in this context, so from a perspective of an author unfamiliar with this term, it won't be as discoverable as `avoid-short-lines`.

That said, when I looked into the dictionaries, one of the definitions of “runt” is also derogatory:

For example, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/runt:
> 3.  usually disparaging : a person of small stature 

In other common dictionaries, I did not find this typographic meaning as well. Looking at some other books on typography that I have which mention orphans and widows, I did not find the mention of “runts” there as well. So I am not sure where this term comes from, and it is unlikely to be widely known.

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