From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264255AbTDXDmD (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:42:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264284AbTDXDmD (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:42:03 -0400 Received: from TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.202]:50675 "EHLO TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264255AbTDXDmC (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:42:02 -0400 To: ruschein@mail-infomine.ucr.edu (Johannes Ruscheinski) Cc: Steven Cole , Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, linux-kernel , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one? References: <200304230936_MC3-1-35AA-864B@compuserve.com> <1051109635.29423.20.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> <20030424033913.GA32423@mail-infomine.ucr.edu> Reply-To: Miles Bader System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop From: Miles Bader Date: 24 Apr 2003 12:53:46 +0900 In-Reply-To: <20030424033913.GA32423@mail-infomine.ucr.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ruschein@mail-infomine.ucr.edu (Johannes Ruscheinski) writes: > As far as I know there is no such words as "canonicalize" in the English > language. Call it a neologism; it's quite widely used among programmers, anyway. > The proper word seems to be "canonize". Um, no -- that means `to make a saint.' -Miles -- `...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.' [The Economist]