From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263637AbTDXO5n (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:57:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263730AbTDXO5n (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:57:43 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:13962 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263729AbTDXO5n (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:57:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:09:50 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Timothy Miller Cc: Steven Cole , Johannes Ruscheinski , Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, linux-kernel , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one? Message-ID: <20030424150950.GW10374@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <200304230936_MC3-1-35AA-864B@compuserve.com> <1051109635.29423.20.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> <20030424033913.GA32423@mail-infomine.ucr.edu> <1051158383.22271.123.camel@spc> <3EA7F8AE.8050402@techsource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EA7F8AE.8050402@techsource.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- nor-mal-iz-able \-,l[0xF5]^--ze-bel\ adj -- nor-mal-iza-tion \,no[0xC7]r-me-le-'za^--shen\ n