From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
To: ruschein@mail-infomine.ucr.edu (Johannes Ruscheinski)
Cc: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>,
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 12:53:46 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo3ck85z5h.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030424033913.GA32423@mail-infomine.ucr.edu>
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.'
-Miles
--
`...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive
that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products
less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.' [The Economist]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-24 3:42 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 [this message]
2003-04-24 4:16 ` Johannes Ruscheinski
2003-04-24 4:34 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-24 19:08 ` Alan Cox
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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