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From: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
To: Herman Oosthuysen <Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one?
Date: 23 Apr 2003 10:10:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1051114214.29426.31.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EA6B8FA.2020409@WirelessNetworksInc.com>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-23 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-23 13:33 How did the Spelling Police miss this one? Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-23 14:53 ` Steven Cole
2003-04-23 16:02   ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-04-23 16:10     ` Steven Cole [this message]
2003-04-24  3:39   ` Johannes Ruscheinski
2003-04-24  3:53     ` Miles Bader
2003-04-24  4:16       ` Johannes Ruscheinski
2003-04-24  4:34         ` Miles Bader
2003-04-24 19:08       ` Alan Cox
2003-04-24 23:06         ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-04-27 11:14           ` Kai Henningsen
2003-04-24  4:26     ` Steven Cole
2003-04-24 14:46       ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-24 15:09         ` viro
2003-04-24 15:44           ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-04-24 16:06             ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-24 15:47           ` Steven Cole
2003-04-27 11:09             ` Kai Henningsen
2003-04-24 15:55           ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-24 15:33         ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-04-24 15:57           ` Timothy Miller
2003-04-24 23:25 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-25  1:39 ` Steven Cole

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