Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one? | From | Steven Cole <> | Date | 23 Apr 2003 10:10:14 -0600 |
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On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 10:02, Herman Oosthuysen wrote: > Uhh, should that not be "canonize"? > (To conform to the canon) > You can save four more characters I would think... ;-) > > Steven Cole wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 07:33, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > >>[me@qq linux-2.5.68-ref]$ grep -R cannonicalize * | wc -l > >> 65 > >> > >> Avast there ye swabs, prepare to fire a broadside! > > > > > > Almost all of the spelling fixes from the Spelling Police were in > > comments, not code. This mistaken spelling of canonicalize is mostly in > > various parts of the non-comment code.
Yeah, I thought about canonize vs canonicalize, but canonize has a long religious history. Canonicalize has been coined rightly or wrongly by computer folk. See this: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci841392,00.html
Steven "loose cannon among the Spelling Police" Cole
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