Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one?

[Steven Cole]

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