Early in my career at Ford (sometime around 1993), I had an assignment to create a manual of procedures for my department. The assignment took a few months to complete.
My first step was to collect all the different precedures that were being used, and to "commonize" these across all the groups. But here was my first problem...
The word "commonize" was not accepted by Word Perfect's spell checker. What? I then found a paperback dictionary from a fellow employee. It wasn't there either. How could this be? It had to be a word. It described exactly what I was doing. "Commonizing" the procedures across our department.
Since that point in time, I have seen this word being used in different publications, different articles, etc. How did they get away with it, when my spell checker would not accept it? If they were using it, I am sure that they had a good reason to.
I am now on a quest to get this word accepted into the English Dictionary. To offer it up to others who are looking to use "Commonize". I can't wait to see where this leads me.
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