Should we use - Credentials
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User Credentials.
Which one is the correct one - AND - should we use Capital Letter- "C"redentials.
Thanks,Suresh
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What is the context, Suresh? What is it in reference to?
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To log into an application.
Eg: User name - sureshvemuri
Password - sure12345
In the above example, User name and Password are, according to us, considered as “Credentials.”
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Oh. I’m sorry-- I’ve never seen them called anything as a unit, Suresh. It has always been ‘username and password’. Maybe another member will know
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Me neither. Your ‘log in’ would work, I guess.
I am sorry, I didn’t get you Ralf.
What do you mean?
Don’t we use the word - “Credentials?”
If not, can any body tell me what is the meaning for the above word in the Information Technology industry.
Which one is correct? 1. An Error message 2. A Error message.
Thanks,Suresh
Hi Suresh
Microsoft uses the expression “user credentials”:
support.microsoft.com/kb/180548
It appears that Mac does, too.
You need to use “an” with “error message”. Whether to use “a” or “an” is dependent on the sound that immediately follows it. If the next word begins with a vowel sound, you need “an”.
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Your credentials can be thought of as “what makes us who we are” but not physically.
Your credentials can be qualifications, knowledge, achievements and proof of identity! to name just a few things.
What makes us who we are is not only skin and bone but also the things above and thus the use of “user credentials”
“verify a user’s user name.”
In this sentence, I think - we should use “verify -AN- user’s user name.”
Wrong: verify a user’s user name.
Correct:verify AN user’s user name.
Am I correct or wrong.
Thanks,Suresh
No. The use of AN and A is based upon the vowels AEIOU but there is an exclusion:
The exclusion is: When the sound of the vowel is the “same as the name” of the letter … eg U and Uniform or User.
It is AN only when the vowel has the sound of the letter such as underwater or understanding or undertaker.
Say the words and hear the difference in the sound of the U vowel.
As HamburgEnglish pointed out, that is wrong.
Most of the time, a “vowel sound” means A,E, I, O, or U – but not always. The use of “an” is based on the pronunciation (i.e. the sound) of the first letter in the word that follows it. If the pronunciation of the word begins with a vowel sound, use “an”.
- an experience
- a unique experience (The first letter sounds like the word “you”)
- an umbrella
- an ugly house
- a house
- an hour (The letter “H” is not pronounced at all.)
- a half an hour
- a submarine
- an SOS (“SOS” is pronounced “es-oh-es”)
- a bandit
- a one-armed bandit (The word “one” is pronounced the same as “won”)
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For reasons unbeknownst to me, “User Credentials Changed” Without the “are” would be much more fitting for software, or any sort of computing. It would seem weird to me to see “User Credentials are changed”, and even “User Credentials have been changed” (which is the better of the two.
User credentials are changed regularly to improve security.
User credentials have been changed to avoid duplication with our other website.
EH? Is there a problem ???
I think “user credentials changed” is more fitting for headers (for the subject of an e-mail notification for example.)
IMO, native speakers would inveigh against “user credentials changed” used in text. (as in “if a user’s credentials changed then she needs to be reminded of the change, or she wouldn’t be able to log in”)
I believe, for objects (File,Book,System,Car)- we should not use Car’s keys.
We should use - “Keys of the Car”
Wrong - “Car’s keys”
But I see this type of usage in the USA news which appear in Indian news papers.
Is this correct?
Is the below word correct?
Its (meaning is It’s).
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These are the acceptable standards in AmE and BrE, Suresh:
car keys
Its = a possession of it
It’s = It is
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I am sorry, I forgot to tell thanks to you Micawber.