diff --git a/lib/Epub/Epub/hyphenation/Hyphenator.cpp b/lib/Epub/Epub/hyphenation/Hyphenator.cpp
index eb3bdec2..4ae5307e 100644
--- a/lib/Epub/Epub/hyphenation/Hyphenator.cpp
+++ b/lib/Epub/Epub/hyphenation/Hyphenator.cpp
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ void appendSegmentPatternBreaks(const std::vector<CodepointInfo>& cps, const Lan
 void appendApostropheContractionBreaks(const std::vector<CodepointInfo>& cps,
                                        std::vector<Hyphenator::BreakInfo>& outBreaks) {
   constexpr size_t kMinLeftSegmentLen = 3;
-  constexpr size_t kMinRightSegmentLen = 2;
+  constexpr size_t kMinRightSegmentLen = 3;
   size_t segmentStart = 0;
 
   for (size_t i = 0; i < cps.size(); ++i) {
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ void appendApostropheContractionBreaks(const std::vector<CodepointInfo>& cps,
           }
         }
 
-        // Avoid stranding short clitics like "l'"/"d'" or tiny suffixes like "'t".
+        // Avoid stranding short clitics like "l'"/"d'" or contraction tails like "'ve"/"'re"/"'ll".
         if (leftPrefixLen >= kMinLeftSegmentLen && rightSuffixLen >= kMinRightSegmentLen) {
           outBreaks.push_back({cps[i + 1].byteOffset, false});
         }
diff --git a/lib/Epub/Epub/hyphenation/Hyphenator.h b/lib/Epub/Epub/hyphenation/Hyphenator.h
index 74886ba6..931695f9 100644
--- a/lib/Epub/Epub/hyphenation/Hyphenator.h
+++ b/lib/Epub/Epub/hyphenation/Hyphenator.h
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ class Hyphenator {
   //   2. Apostrophe contractions between letters (e.g. all'improvviso).
   //      Liang patterns are run per alphabetic segment around apostrophes.
   //      A direct break at the apostrophe boundary is allowed only when the left
-  //      segment has at least 3 letters and the right segment has at least 2 letters,
-  //      avoiding short clitics (e.g. l', d') and short contraction tails (e.g. can't).
+  //      segment has at least 3 letters and the right segment has at least 3 letters,
+  //      avoiding short clitics (e.g. l', d') and contraction tails (e.g. 've, 're, 'll).
   //   3. Language-specific Liang patterns (e.g. German de_patterns).
   //      Example: "Quadratkilometer" -> Qua|drat|ki|lo|me|ter.
   //   4. Fallback every-N-chars splitting (only when includeFallback is true AND no