The misuses of the word “login” has achieved some fame as of late:
Despite what many people — mostly in the computer field — think, “login” is not a verb. It’s simply not. Whether or not “login” is a word at all may spark a debate in some circles, but assuming it is then it may act as many parts of speech, but not as a verb.
But login is not misused alone. The site also catalogues other popular non-verbs:
This site is dedicated to informing people about words that are not verbs, even though people misuse them that way. You have to pick one of the non-verbs about which this site knows:
backup
checkout
checkout
cutover
cutoff
failover
login
logoff
logon
logout
lockdown
pickup
setup
shutdown
shutoff
signin
signoff
signout
signup
startup
What made me happiest to discover was the page’s name: notaverb.com/badbad_verbs. It’s just true.
