Hi Barry, My practice is the ask whomever is the best copy editor around that is dealing with print publications. (i.e.,U of Toronto Press, University Relations, etc.) There are very standard conventions that will be used by the print people, and they are based on standard dictionaries or styles that are considered "the standard" (at a point in time) particularly if you are trying to publish something for print. Of course, they will also advise you that it is a matter of style and you are free to override the convention. But if it doesn't matter to you, I go with their conventions and figure they must have a secret society that figures this stuff out and saves me a lot of time from making these kinds of decisions. Of course, unless I am trying to avoid writing and this seems like a diversion I can rationalize. Take care, IB ---- Original message ----
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:54:59 -0500 From: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: [Air-l] login/logon To: aoir list <air-l@aoir.org>
Which is the preferred usage: "login" or "logon". For my paper writing, I'd like to standardize on one.
Google shows: "login": 218 Million hits "logon": 6.7 Million hits
so there is a 30:1 preference for login vs. logon. But I'd love to hear some more debate.
Barry
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