From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263754AbTDXUAl (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:00:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263807AbTDXUAl (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:00:41 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:17540 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263754AbTDXUAk (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:00:40 -0400 Subject: Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one? From: Alan Cox To: Miles Bader Cc: Johannes Ruscheinski , Steven Cole , Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: References: <200304230936_MC3-1-35AA-864B@compuserve.com> <1051109635.29423.20.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> <20030424033913.GA32423@mail-infomine.ucr.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1051211320.4004.24.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 24 Apr 2003 20:08:40 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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