[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] setup/set-up, plugin/plug-in and login/log-in

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Monday 28 August 2006 22:59, William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
> If we're using Google as an unscientific metric ...

Entirely unscientific - that cannot be stressed enough.

I altered my google.co.uk search terms to emphasise the words' uses as nouns 
and verbs, by prefixing the active words with "a" and "to" respectively.

Searching for a verb:
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"pages from the UK":

* "to login to"      586,000
* "to log in to"     263,000
* "to log-in to"     252,000
* "to log into"      167,000

"the web":

* "to login to"    9,070,000
* "to log in to"  10,900,000
* "to log-in to"  10,800,000
* "to log into"    8,060,000

Searching for a noun:
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"pages from the UK":

* "a login to"           953
* "a log in to"          784
* "a log-in to"          819
* "a log into"           261

"the web":

* "a login to"       184,000
* "a log in to"      104,000
* "a log-in to"      104,000
* "a log into"        27,300

> "Login" may not be a defined British English word (or at least it's not
> defined in the OED), but it is a defined word within the computing milieu.
> Were someone to use the word "grok" in a .po, should we replace that with
> "understand" simply because it wasn't listed in the OED?  Context, baby,
> context is king in this situation IMHO.

Good point, but "grok" and "understand" are synonyms rather than simple 
variations of the same word/phrase.

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