Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one? | From | Miles Bader <> | Date | 24 Apr 2003 12:53:46 +0900 |
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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.'
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