Re: 'log in to' or 'log into'?

["Milan Davidovic" <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Sonja McShane <sonja -dot- mcshane -at- str -dot- com -dot- au> wrote:
>  Should I write 'log in to ABC product' or 'log into ABC product'? I
>  prefer the former but a colleague prefers the latter.

For whatever it's worth, I consulted a dictionary based on COBUILD's
Bank of English:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_English

Based on the entry for "log", "log into" is preferred.

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Milan Davidovic
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