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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Johannes Ruscheinski <ruschein@mail-infomine.ucr.edu>,
	Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>,
	Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one?
Date: 24 Apr 2003 20:08:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1051211320.4004.24.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buo3ck85z5h.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>

On Iau, 2003-04-24 at 04:53, Miles Bader wrote:
> 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.'

Means both. Its actually common Unixism since 1970's and probably pre
unix too. Even the tty layer enshrines it (there another reused
religious word 8)) - the normal mode is ICANON


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-24 20:00 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
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 [this message]
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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