I’m checkin this out right now
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In my mind, I can't checkout, because it's a noun or an adjective. I always do verbs, so I check out.
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But: Log in... Login... 🤔
(pretty sure "Login" is a word... right?)
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It is, but it wasn't always.
Just like "today" was originally "to day" and then "to-day". People simplify stuff they use a lot.
or if Canadian, logging.
Some Canadians may be reverted to childhood from watching/hearing this song. Logdivers Waltz
I logged all of my work for years and it shows that I’m not a logger.
Checkout is a noun. It's the registers at the end of the grocery store.
Checkin is also a noun. It means the front desk of a hotel.
Once you start verbing either of those, you need to split the words up. I don't know why, I don't make the rules.
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