diff --git a/src/uu/whoami/src/platform/mod.rs b/src/uu/whoami/src/platform/mod.rs
index ab0b856e6..b5064a8d2 100644
--- a/src/uu/whoami/src/platform/mod.rs
+++ b/src/uu/whoami/src/platform/mod.rs
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@
 // spell-checker:ignore (ToDO) getusername
 
 #[cfg(unix)]
-pub use self::unix::getusername;
+pub use self::unix::get_username;
 
 #[cfg(windows)]
-pub use self::windows::getusername;
+pub use self::windows::get_username;
 
 #[cfg(unix)]
 mod unix;
diff --git a/src/uu/whoami/src/platform/unix.rs b/src/uu/whoami/src/platform/unix.rs
index 33bfa6025..3d5fc6f54 100644
--- a/src/uu/whoami/src/platform/unix.rs
+++ b/src/uu/whoami/src/platform/unix.rs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ use std::io::Result;
 use uucore::entries::uid2usr;
 use uucore::libc::geteuid;
 
-pub unsafe fn getusername() -> Result<String> {
+pub unsafe fn get_username() -> Result<String> {
     // Get effective user id
     let uid = geteuid();
     uid2usr(uid)
diff --git a/src/uu/whoami/src/platform/windows.rs b/src/uu/whoami/src/platform/windows.rs
index 1d65281bd..5d648877b 100644
--- a/src/uu/whoami/src/platform/windows.rs
+++ b/src/uu/whoami/src/platform/windows.rs
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
  * file that was distributed with this source code.
  */
 
-// spell-checker:ignore (ToDO) advapi lmcons winnt getusername WCHAR UNLEN
-
 extern crate winapi;
 
 use self::winapi::shared::lmcons;
@@ -18,7 +16,7 @@ use std::io::{Error, Result};
 use std::mem;
 use uucore::wide::FromWide;
 
-pub unsafe fn getusername() -> Result<String> {
+pub unsafe fn get_username() -> Result<String> {
     #[allow(deprecated)]
     let mut buffer: [winnt::WCHAR; lmcons::UNLEN as usize + 1] = mem::uninitialized();
     let mut len = buffer.len() as minwindef::DWORD;
diff --git a/src/uu/whoami/src/whoami.rs b/src/uu/whoami/src/whoami.rs
index 21e170dec..383fb40b5 100644
--- a/src/uu/whoami/src/whoami.rs
+++ b/src/uu/whoami/src/whoami.rs
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 
 /* last synced with: whoami (GNU coreutils) 8.21 */
 
-// spell-checker:ignore (ToDO) getusername
-
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate clap;
 #[macro_use]
@@ -38,7 +36,7 @@ pub fn uumain(args: impl uucore::Args) -> i32 {
 
 pub fn exec() {
     unsafe {
-        match platform::getusername() {
+        match platform::get_username() {
             Ok(username) => println!("{}", username),
             Err(err) => match err.raw_os_error() {
                 Some(0) | None => crash!(1, "failed to get username"),