On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 06:03:45PM +0100, Mo McKinlay wrote:
> >
> > # Myself, I still think the "disc" spelling is horribly wrong --- I've
> > # heard people say that even in the U.K. and Commonwealth countries, the
> > # term "hard disk" is much more commonly used.
> >
> > Certainly in the UK:
> >
> > hard disk
> > floppy disk
> > CD-ROM disc
>
> as an english native, please allow me to disagree with you. i think anyone
> who was brought up in the acorn world uses disc for all three.
Although they did include *DISK as a synonym for the *DISC command to keep
everyone happy... ;-)
> of course `drive' has an unambiguous spelling.
OK, just go into a shop and try buying a pack of 10 floppy drives, instead
of 10 floppy disks <g>
James.
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