Using google.co.uk but searching with the same terms pages *only from the
UK* you get more conclusive results:
"login to a machine" - 736
"log into a machine" - 298
"log in to a machine" - 8280
It would seem that people in the UK would tend to write each word
seperately.
Take away the machine element and there's similar popularity:
"login to" - 10.8 million results
"log into" - 1.8 million results
"log in to" - 17 million results
On 8/28/06, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at dhanapalan.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday 28 August 2006 02:13, William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
> > However, I and others don't say "I log into a
> > machine", we say "I login to a machine". There should definitely be
> > deference to standard English usage wherever possible, however I would
> > exempt computer usage specifically as using the "standard" may actually
> > confuse things for newcomers to both Ubuntu and computing in general.
>
> Most people I communicate with say and write "log into a machine", so this
> is
> a contentious issue.
>
> I am normally loathe to use Google as a measuring tool, but since we are
> talking about computer use (independent of dialect and so on) I feel that
> it
> provides a reasonable representation. Using google.co.uk, the results are:
>
> "login to a machine" 558
> "log into a machine" 10300
> "log-in to a machine" 14400
> "log in to a machine" 14400
>
> The latter two are identical because Google ignores the hyphen/space and
> treats then similarly. I don't really know if these figures tell us much,
> but
> I thought I would throw them in as fodder for debate. What is most
> interesting is how far the first quotation is behind the others.
>
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> "Customers constantly evaluate other desktop platforms, [but] it would be
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> much work to move over that they hope we just improve Windows rather than
> force them to move. In short, without this exclusive franchise called the
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