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Subject:RE: lifecycle or life-cycle or life cycle From:"West, Michael" <Michael -dot- West -at- gsjbw -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:28:06 +1000
"Life cycle" is a standard English noun. "Lifecycle" is a neologism.
"Life-cycle" is a compound adjective.
Writers are supposed to know these things, fer crissakes. If they don't
know them, they should bloody well know how to look them up.
--
Mike West
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> Subject: RE: lifecycle or life-cycle or life cycle
>
> I had this discussion once at a previous company; in the end, we used
> lifecycle as one word because our marketing department had
> latched on to
> that spelling, and they had a lot of brochures and sales
> sheets using it.
> Sometimes it is better to be consistent than correct.
>
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> Subject: lifecycle or life-cycle or life cycle
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering what is the correct way of writing the term
> lifecycle (or
> is it life-cycle or life cycle) in the context of the
> systems development
> lifecycle or a software lifecycle etc.
>
> I have seen the three options lifecycle, life-cycle and
> life cycle used,
> although it seems that if popularity is an indicator then
> life cycle is
> the correct term.
>
>
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