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urgent compound word

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:26 pm
by selena
Please can someone help me? Is LOG IN a false compound word? I read somewhere that it was but my daughter is convinced it's real. I suppose it is a real word in the IT world but in the 11+ world, is it real??

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:31 pm
by Guest55
It's two words, not one.

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:16 pm
by hugh
In 11+ terms, I'd go for two.

However, in the real world, it depends on context:

When you log in to the system... (two words, verb and preposition)

Your system administrator will give you a login code... (one word, noun)

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:17 pm
by Sally-Anne
Definitely two words - common usage may abbreviate it to "login" but it is two words.

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:14 pm
by NotionPotion
My daughter did exactly the same thing!
I think this is confusing for the average very computer-literate 10/11 year old child. As has been said I think it is actually 2 words but common usage certainly has it as one.
I think this is confusing in the modern day world. Perhaps it will become a new word for the oxford english dictionary in the future!

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:28 pm
by Sally-Anne
The same could be said of Land + Rover.

Two words or one?

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:15 pm
by Guest
Look no further than the bottom of this screen, "Log in" is two words.

Elsewhere on the website you will see two useful lists of compound words, one from Patricia:

http://www.elevenplusexams.co.uk/pdf/11 ... tricia.pdf

and from from this website:

http://www.elevenplusexams.co.uk/pdf/el ... -words.pdf

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:39 pm
by hugh
Look no further than the bottom of this screen, "Log in" is two words.
See my post above; that's just an example when it is clearly two words; it is telling you to click there to log in to (or log into?!) the system. But when talking about the name that you sign in with, that is commonly a single noun: your login. Both are valid, but in different circumstances, which it is why it's a bad example for an 11+ test.

But what about into/in to or the fact that today used to be two words, then hyphenated, but is now always one word. our language changes; dictionaries try to keep up and Bucks 11+ should too!

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:46 pm
by Guest
The NFER question database is thought not to have changed since 1997 so whatever was prevalent then I suppose would be the best advice.

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:15 am
by patricia
Anonymous wrote:The NFER question database is thought not to have changed since 1997 so whatever was prevalent then I suppose would be the best advice.
Absolutely.

The question type where a 3 letter word is missing from a longer word. One of these longer words is CASSETTE.

Now, according to most of my 10 ten year old students, its CDs only, whats a cassette?

Patricia