hyphen-en-us software package provides US English hyphenation patterns for LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install hyphen-en-us
hyphen-en-us is installed in your system.
Make ensure the hyphen-en-us package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep hyphen-en-us *
You will get with hyphen-en-us package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | hyphen-en-us |
| Version | 2.8.8-2ubuntu1 |
| Description | US English hyphenation patterns for LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org |
| Sub Section | Text |