Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one?

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2003-04-24 at 04:53, Miles Bader wrote:
> [e-mail] (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.'

Means both. Its actually common Unixism since 1970's and probably pre
unix too. Even the tty layer enshrines it (there another reused
religious word 8)) - the normal mode is ICANON