[Air-l] login/logon

[Dominic Pinto]

 --- ngonzale at uiuc.edu wrote: 
> Dear Barry: I do not know much about this debate,
> but I have a
> question for you: Please tell me how do you find in
> google the
> hits? what is the procedure? i.e. if I would like to
> know how
> many time the word Caribbean appears in Google, how
> will I
> proceed? Thanks for your help! Nelly
>
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> 324 Latin American and Caribbean Library
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
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> Urbana, IL 61801 - USA
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> ngonzale at uiuc.edu
> 

A search on Google just now recorded over 7M hits. And
a link to a definition:

log in

Also, log on. Enter into a computer the information
needed to begin a session, as in I logged in at two
o'clock, or There's no record of your logging on
today. These expressions refer especially to large
systems shared by numerous individuals, who need to
enter a username or password before executing a
program. The antonyms are log off and log out, meaning
“to end a computer session.” All these expressions
derive from the use of log in the nautical sense of
entering information about a ship in a journal called
a log book. [c. 1960]

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