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Advice for "lifecycle"

Open julian-cable opened this issue 10 months ago • 2 comments

From @rclee33: The RHT style guide says to write "lifecycle" as one word (https://stylepedia.net/style/6.2/#l). However, several product names use the 2-word form: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle Support Add-On". To avoid possible confusion, I'm wondering whether we should add a sentence to the Style Guide entry about the exceptions in product names.

Julian: I think a suitable approach here would be to use one word by default, but two words if referring to a product name that writes it that way.

Word Nerds has an open item about how to write the term, and has not yet made a decision. You can see their notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10uOb9Psvh4LWatH-B3raiSwbBsO_4tMFiQkfbedxMmk/edit#heading=h.jmpvkofa6wr

julian-cable avatar Apr 26 '24 15:04 julian-cable