Re: How did the Spelling Police miss this one?

Steven Cole (elenstev@mesatop.com)
23 Apr 2003 10:10:14 -0600


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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