As I write and as I search for more information about this topic, my mind starts wondering about the "English" part of it... so, is it lifecycle or life-cycle or life cycle?
It's interesting to know that I'm not the only one who wonders about this... Anyway, i found this interesting reply in a website about this question...
What ever happened to the natural evolution of language? A compound generally starts open (life cycle), migrates to hyphenated (life-cycle), and ends up closed (lifecycle).
Many of us have been in the business long enough to remember when online help was on-line help or even "on line" help. Jeesh,when I was a kid, there was a hyphen in cooperation!
So, what do u think? Do anyone actually knows the answer? Or is there any answer at all? In my opinion, all 3 are acceptable, depending on who reads and evaluates it! ;)
4 comments:
I think (my understanding) any 2 words with meaning it should be space without any hyphenated...so life cycle should be "life cycle" since both have a meaning
If that is the case, the word 'sometime' would be some time. Something would be some thing, anyway would be any way, etc... etc...
good point there, anonymous.
i would say it all depends on the word. there shouldn't be a "rule" for this.
It really depends on the first question, is it "lifecycle" one word or "life cycle" two words ... th hyphenated version only applies if it is 2 words, and then you would use the hyphen if the word is being used as an adjective, such as "the life-cycle model" but as two words when it is the noun "the life cycle of a lady bug" ... but the first question still stands, is it one word or two.
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