<div>Using <a href="http://google.co.uk">google.co.uk</a> but searching with the same terms pages *only from the UK* you get more conclusive results:</div>
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<div>"login to a machine" - 736</div>
<div>"log into a machine" - 298</div>
<div>"log in to a machine" - 8280</div>
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<div>It would seem that people in the UK would tend to write each word seperately.</div>
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<div>Take away the machine element and there's similar popularity:</div>
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<div>"login to" - 10.8 million results</div>
<div>"log into" - 1.8 million results<br><font size="2">"log in to" - 17 million results</font></div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sridhar Dhanapalan</b> <<a href="mailto:sridhar@dhanapalan.com">sridhar@dhanapalan.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Monday 28 August 2006 02:13, William Anderson <<a href="mailto:neuro@well.com">neuro@well.com</a>> wrote:
<br>> However, I and others don't say "I log into a<br>> machine", we say "I login to a machine". There should definitely be<br>> deference to standard English usage wherever possible, however I would
<br>> exempt computer usage specifically as using the "standard" may actually<br>> confuse things for newcomers to both Ubuntu and computing in general.<br><br>Most people I communicate with say and write "log into a machine", so this is
<br>a contentious issue.<br><br>I am normally loathe to use Google as a measuring tool, but since we are<br>talking about computer use (independent of dialect and so on) I feel that it<br>provides a reasonable representation. Using
<a href="http://google.co.uk">google.co.uk</a>, the results are:<br><br>"login to a machine" 558<br>"log into a machine" 10300<br>"log-in to a machine" 14400<br>"log in to a machine" 14400
<br><br>The latter two are identical because Google ignores the hyphen/space and<br>treats then similarly. I don't really know if these figures tell us much, but<br>I thought I would throw them in as fodder for debate. What is most
<br>interesting is how far the first quotation is behind the others.<br><br>--<br>Sridhar Dhanapalan<br>{GnuPG/OpenPGP: <a href="http://www.dhanapalan.com/yama.asc">http://www.dhanapalan.com/yama.asc</a><br> 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4}
<br><br>"Customers constantly evaluate other desktop platforms, [but] it would be so<br>much work to move over that they hope we just improve Windows rather than<br>force them to move. In short, without this exclusive franchise called the
<br>Windows API, we would have been dead a long time ago."<br> - Microsoft C++ General Manager Aaron Contorer, 1997<br><br><br>--<br>Ubuntu-l10n-eng mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ubuntu-l10n-eng@lists.ubuntu.com">
Ubuntu-l10n-eng@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-eng">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-eng</a><br><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnglishTranslation">
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnglishTranslation</a><br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>