Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one?

Miles Bader (miles@lsi.nec.co.jp)
24 Apr 2003 12:53:46 +0900


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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