Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one?

From: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>,
	Johannes Ruscheinski <ruschein@mail-infomine.ucr.edu>,
	Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one?
Date: 24 Apr 2003 09:47:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1051199254.29423.38.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030424150950.GW10374@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

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