Timeline for The plural form of: One's life work
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| Mar 15, 2015 at 19:46 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | It doesn't help that neither Google Books nor Google Internet searches take any notice of apostrophes, but my Internet search returns "About 190,000 results". But when I actually scroll through them it peters out at page 4 with only 35 hits (most of which are irrelevant matches like [people try] to make their lives work, but [they fail], I don't say the noun lifework (whether one word, hypenated, or two words) is "invalid". Just that the standard singular version is life's work (two words, with an apostrophe). | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 15:50 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @FumbleFingers there are many examples for their lifework which yields 10,200 results. Admittedly in Google Books: their lives' work I had to sift through the results, but I believe there are many more than 308 instances. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 2:04 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
changed first citation b/c it contained an apostrophe, but there are other equally valid examples of "their life work"
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| Mar 14, 2015 at 16:19 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Searching Google Books for their lives' work but screens out most of the "false positives". But it only claims about 308 hits, compared to about 10,100 for their life's work but (where virtually none are unwanted accidental collocations). | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 16:03 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added link and US spelling "lifework"
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| Mar 14, 2015 at 15:27 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 542 characters in body
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| Mar 14, 2015 at 14:54 | history | answered | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |