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Subject: Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one?
From: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
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On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 09:09, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 10:46:06AM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote:
>  
> > On the other hand, "canonicalize", while strange and new, unambiguously 
> > means (b).
> > 
> > Is there an already-existing word which means (b)?
> 
> % webster normalize
> nor-mal-ize \'no[0xC7]r-me-,l[0xF5]^-z\ vt  -ized; -iz-ing
> (1865)
> 1: to make conform to or reduce to a norm or standard
> 2: to make normal (as by a transformation of variables)
> 3: to bring or restore (as relations between countries) to a normal
>      condition

Thanks Al.  I've been looking for a good English substitute for
"rapprochement" (in the spirit of Freedom Fries).  Sense 3 shows that
"normalize" is clearly a candidate, but it lacks the same panache. ;)

Steven