Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one?

[Steven Cole]

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