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SubjectRe: How did the Spelling Police miss this one?
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On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 17:25, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Al Viro wrote:
>
>
> >> On the other hand, "canonicalize", while strange and new, unambiguously
> >> means (b).
> >>
> >> Is there an already-existing word which means (b)?
> >
> >% webster normalize
>
>
> There is a subtle difference between 'normal' and 'canonical',
> but I can't quite put my finger on it.

Another sense of "normal" is as in "normal vector", which is
perpendicular or orthogonal to a surface. Orthogonal is a good
description of what this thread has become, but that's normal.

Steven

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