From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264095AbTDWP7K (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:59:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264097AbTDWP7K (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:59:10 -0400 Received: from mailrelay2.lanl.gov ([128.165.4.103]:26073 "EHLO mailrelay2.lanl.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264095AbTDWP7J (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:59:09 -0400 Subject: Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one? From: Steven Cole To: Herman Oosthuysen Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <3EA6B8FA.2020409@WirelessNetworksInc.com> References: <200304230936_MC3-1-35AA-864B@compuserve.com> <1051109635.29423.20.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> <3EA6B8FA.2020409@WirelessNetworksInc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1051114214.29426.31.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Date: 23 Apr 2003 10:10:14 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 10:02, Herman Oosthuysen wrote: > Uhh, should that not be "canonize"? > (To conform to the canon) > You can save four more characters I would think... ;-) > > Steven Cole wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 07:33, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > >>[me@qq linux-2.5.68-ref]$ grep -R cannonicalize * | wc -l > >> 65 > >> > >> Avast there ye swabs, prepare to fire a broadside! > > > > > > Almost all of the spelling fixes from the Spelling Police were in > > comments, not code. This mistaken spelling of canonicalize is mostly in > > various parts of the non-comment code. Yeah, I thought about canonize vs canonicalize, but canonize has a long religious history. Canonicalize has been coined rightly or wrongly by computer folk. See this: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci841392,00.html Steven "loose cannon among the Spelling Police" Cole