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We're embroiled in an office brouhaha over the terms "logon" and "log on."
According to the Wired Style Guide "logon" is a noun and "log on" is the
verb form with a necessary preposition for completing the action. What I
want to know is how you all state any instructions telling the user to, and
this is how I put it, "Log onto the system." A colleague insists it's,
"Log on the system." We've already dismissed the tester who demands that
we write, "Logon the system." Ideas?
