Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one?

From: ruschein@mail-infomine.ucr.edu (Johannes Ruscheinski)
To: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
Cc: 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: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:39:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030424033913.GA32423@mail-infomine.ucr.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1051109635.29423.20.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov>

Also sprach Steven Cole:
>... 
> The fix.canon script used was this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> find . -name "*" | xargs grep -l cannonicalize | awk '{print "ex - ",$1," -c \"%s/cannonicalize/canonicalize/g|x\""}' | sh
> ...
Hi Steve,

As far as I know there is no such words as "canonicalize" in the English
language.  The proper word seems to be "canonize".  Since I'm not a native
speaker please take my comment with a grain of salt.
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Johannes
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