Dictionary English: UK/USA vs USA legal (what is the difference?)

Question

In InDesign I need a good dictionary for good hyphenation.

In terms of hyphenation I see no differences between UK and USA.

But I see an obvious difference between the two above and USA legal.

The same way as online hyphenator sites are differ too.

For example

UK and USA hyphen like this:

add-ed
broth-el
ex-cep-tion-al

USA legal like this:

added
brothel
ex-cep-tional

Can someone give me some enlightment why is there a difference and what is this difference? Of course it is subjective but which is senior to the other? And in what aspect?

I need to decide which to choose over the other in the typesetting of a novel.

This is more grammatical question then InDesign one but I hope some people are already ahead of me in this journey.

Brad @ Roaring Mouse · Accepted Answer

In a nutshell, the spelling dictionaries and hypehantion dictionaries (if any) that InDesign uses are Open Source from Hunspell; many other programs besides Adobe's use them. Not all languages have hyphenation dictionaries that are tuned for that particular language; the ones that don't rely on a more generic hyphenation algorithm. I don't see one for US Legal or US Medical, so that's probably working against you. In any case, you can still disgaree with what Hunspell says the hyphenation should be for a particular word, but you can add those to your User dictionary accordingly.

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