Word help - disks or discs?

[sccsux]

The correct english spelling is disc.

I think the spelling disk comes from the word diskette, so the spelling disk is probably an abbreviation to relate to computer terms.

The term diskette is probably american so we can blame them for another corruption of our language.

 

 

OED:

disk

· n. variant spelling in the US and in computing contexts of disc.

 

Soooo.... Disk if used in reference to computing (with the exception of optical media), Disc in all other circumstances (at least in English English, as opposed to American English)

[buck]

When I first entered Massachusets from Canada, I had to take what was laughingly called a driving test. This consisted of a very short drive as far as the train station and back. When presented with the ceritficate of competence I was told by the policeman conducting the test to "write " my name. Confused, I said I wrote it already. Seems what he wanted was my signature in cursive script. While I was familiar with American spelling, and such things as a muffler on a car and a silencer on a gun, the old elevator against lift thing. I reasoned since Otis, an american, had invented the elevator and therefore made the skyscraper possible he had the right to call it an elevator. It doesn't surprise me that the two countries would have taken the language in seperate directions. It is a flexible tongue with new words coming into it by the bookful. Unlike French where the purists are trying to get rid of le weekend and other insults to gallic purity. As to which country is responsible for the ascendancy of English as the world's premier one, I think a lot of it is owed to the old empire and commonwealth, and a lot of the new technology and the universal use of english in air traffic control is due to American influence. America has still not surrendered to the meter with the foot and the mile in general aviation pilotage.

While it seems half of Sheffield seems to be upset by these perfidious yanks destroying the queen's english, the perfidious yanks don't really give a damn.

They still refer to the OED, and then check with Webster's.

[poppins]

MySheffield accent never bothered me until I first heard myself on an answering machine dosen;t seem to bother the Yanks though, just bothers me at times.

[hitchhiker]

So, just to recap:

 

1. Brake Disc is correct not Brake Disk
   
2. Pooch_1 hates Buck and vice versa
   
3. Poppins has a Sheffield accent
   
4. Fluff was born
   
5. and Americans can't spell
   

 

Thanks!

[*Cinderella*]

i meant the way words are spelt

 

yeah they invented djs i suppose with alan freeman? no not FLUFF, back in the 50s

 

Methinks you mean Alan Freed. Fluff was a true one-off.

[Pooch_1]

So, just to recap:

 

1. Brake Disc is correct not Brake Disk
   
2. Pooch_1 hates Buck and vice versa
   
3. Poppins has a Sheffield accent
   
4. Fluff was born
   
5. and Americans can't spell
   

 

Thanks!

 

Spot On :hihi:

[ToryCynic]

Disc: Compact Disc

Disk: Floppy Disk

Disc: Brake Disc

[ToryCynic]

Ignore

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[Pooch_1]

Where did you hear about me going AWOL? From the same source as your " expertise" on matters American I suppose. You're supposed to be a Sheffielder with a Canadian/ Southern mix of an accent. How does that figue. As long as I've been here I have never lost my Sheffield dialect. You waffle along and when you get mad you make nasty idle threats you're too stupid or incapable of carrying out. You come into a thread spewing venom at people without any cause then go spastic when anyone challenges your view. You are in serious need of help, my friend, and you will hear no more from me. You just aren't worht it.

 

Why would I have a Sheffield accent when I am canadian? I lived in the south for a while and picked their dialect up, what is so wrong with that? it was my choice to do that. Ahem, you are the one making idle threats, was it not you who wanted to get me "tween" decks to teach me a lesson in manners?

It is you with the problem and needing help. It also proves the point about me being knowledgeable about affairs in the USA, because you are so quick to rise and try to defend your adopted homeland. As with the BS you said about New Orleans, it is still a bomb site after Katrina, with thousands still homeless or living in trailers. If giving my opinion in a thread is 'spewing venom', then I guess I must have upset a lot of people on SF, as I thought discussion boards were for voicing and discussing opinions, and not for calling people outright liars and other choice names, just because their opinion is different to yours. I take s**t from no one, and give back as good as I am given. So whatever buck, you have a nice life.

 

CD Disc, Hard Disk, Floppy Disk, Record Disc.

Sympathise, Harmonise, Categorise.

Correct spellings, as per OED.

[buck]

I had the great privelege Saturday to attend a dance recital at the High School auditorium by over 400 girls aged from 4 to 18. It was a hot day, and the air conditioners were fighting a losing battle with the crowded place. The girls danced for over three hours with enthusiasm, grace, and skill and for only ten dollars a ticket it was better than a trip to Broadway. The place was full of proud parents and grandparents, including me, the grandad of 4 year old Victoria. They represent the best of what suburban America is all about. Organizing our kids into dance, figure skating, litttle league baseball and softball, basketball, field and ice hockey, lacrosse and soccer. Despite horrors like Columbine and Virginia Tech, which shock and shame us all, our suburbs are generally fairly crime free. Coming back to our girls, they have Irish names, German names, Italian names, English names, Japanese names, Chinese names, Korean names, Arabic names, Jewish names, and they mostly speak only one language with any skill..English. They speak it with American accents using American spelling in America. Why should some people who would call themselves true Sheffielders, and are not, deny them the right to do so within their own land. They are called illiterate, loud mouthed , gum chewing Yankee bitches for no reason other than hatred. Many of our young ladies have probably never known what OED means, and in their perverse text speak way wouild turn it into Obmoxious English Dimwits, except that they have too much class for that.