Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 24 Apr 2003 20:08:40 +0100 |
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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
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