Re: [Micronet] How do you spell "login"?

From: Aron Roberts (aron@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 14:24:32 PDT

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    Hi Susan,

    In the message "[Micronet] How do you spell "login"?", dated
    2000-10-11, Susan L. Hedgpeth wrote:

    >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.

       Kalle Nemvalts, et al. maintain a style guide for the IS&T
    publication, Berkeley Computing and Communications, at:

       http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/style/

       In the extensive word list linked from this style guide, the
    following forms are given:

    log in (v)
    log on (v)
    login (n, adj)
    login id
    logon (n, adj)

       Another, similar word list is at the University of Indiana:

       http://www.indiana.edu/%7Euitspubs/terms/

    login (Adj. or noun, one word.)
    log in (Verb, two words.)
    log into (Verb + "to.")

       You might also be able to find additional style guides and word
    lists by conducting a search using the terms "style guide" (or
    similar terms) on the DocShare Web site:

       http://www.docshare.org/

    Aron Roberts
    Workstation Software Support Group

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