From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264302AbTDXEE2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 00:04:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264375AbTDXEE2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 00:04:28 -0400 Received: from litaipig.ucr.edu ([138.23.89.48]:34488 "EHLO mail-infomine.ucr.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264302AbTDXEE1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 00:04:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:16:32 -0700 To: Miles Bader Cc: Steven Cole , Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, linux-kernel , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one? Message-ID: <20030424041632.GB32423@mail-infomine.ucr.edu> References: <200304230936_MC3-1-35AA-864B@compuserve.com> <1051109635.29423.20.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> <20030424033913.GA32423@mail-infomine.ucr.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Fnord: +++ath X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black X-Message-Flag: Message text blocked: ADULT LANGUAGE/SITUATIONS X-BeenThere: crackmonkey@crackmonkey.org From: ruschein@mail-infomine.ucr.edu (Johannes Ruscheinski) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Also sprach Miles Bader: > 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. Most programmers don't know how to spell either. Btw., I've been a programmer for over 20 years. Just because people don't know any better does not necessarily make it correct. > > > The proper word seems to be "canonize". > > Um, no -- that means `to make a saint.' Um, yes but -- it also means "to make canonical" according to http://www.m-w.com/. > > -Miles >... Johannes -- Dr. Johannes Ruscheinski EMail: ruschein_AT_infomine.ucr.edu *** Linux *** Location: science library, room G40 *** The Choice Of A GNU Generation! *** Phone: (909) 787-2279 "Perennial nuisance Charlton Heston pops up to declare that there are "too many people on the Earth as it is" and one realizes instantly that as president of the NRA, he is doing his best to correct that." -- Tom Shales, The Washington Post