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SubjectRe: How did the Spelling Police miss this one?
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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.'

-Miles
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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]
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