[Micronet] How do you spell "login"?

From: Susan L. Hedgpeth (hedgpeth@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 13:54:24 PDT

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    Does anyone know if there are university (or other) standards for using the
    words to refer to someone logging in or out of a website or page. It gets
    tricky because it might be a verb, a noun, or an adjective. For example,

    "Log in here to check your account"
    "This is the login page for ..."
    "Enter your student log-in and date of birth..."

    Should it be login, log-in, log in or something else? Or perhaps it should
    be log-on, or logon? What about when they are logging out...should it be
    log-out or logout or ???

    How do you decide what version to use? Is there a style guide somewhere
    that I should consult?

    Thanks for your help.

     

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