Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pacs-l
Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:29:59 CDT
From:         Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Spelling: DISC

6 Messages, 78 Lines
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From: HILL_J@CUBLDR.Colorado.EDU
Subject: Re: Spelling: DISC
And then there was the suggestion-borne-of-frustration at the last CC:DA
meeting to use "disque" and have done with it.  (well, we all knew it was
ridiculous)
        - janet swan hill
          univ of colo, bldr
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From: jan3@po.cwru.edu (James A. Nauer)
Subject: Re: Spelling: DISC

I came up with a handy rule-of-thumb some few years ago that has worked
perfectly so far.  Look at the physical object you're working with: if it's
round, it's a disc (audio CD's, CD-ROM, vinyl LP's, frisbees...); if it's
square or rectangular, it's a disk (floppies of all kinds, hard disks, and
magneto-optical or WORM disks).

Basically, it follows the analog digital rule, but automatically deals with
the CD/CD-ROM exception.

cheers,
  --Jim
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From:     <RHADDEN@USGSRESV>
Subject:  RE: Spelling: DISC
The whole subject of the spelling of the item should be disc-arded!
lee hadden
usgs library
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From:         Andy Boze <ABOZE@VMA.CC.ND.EDU>
Organization: University Libraries of Notre Dame
Subject:      Re: Spelling: DISC
I was just wondering if anyone checked a dictionary?  My 1975 _Webster's
Collegiate_ gives "disc" and "disk" simply as spelling variants.  I'm
writing this from home, and don't have an older dictionary handy, but I
managed to find and online 1911 _Roget's Thesaurus_.  It also listed
both spellings.  Although "disc" is sometimes the more common spelling
(the farm implement is usually spelt d-i-s-c), both spellings are
equally acceptable and seem to have been for for at least the last
80 years.

Andy Boze                                         Internet: ABOZE@VMA.CC.ND.EDU
PC/Network Coordinator                            BITnet: ABOZE@IRISHVMA
University Libraries of Notre Dame                Phone: (219) 239-8708
221 Hesburgh Library
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5629
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From: Nancy Garman <ngarman@well.sf.ca.us>
Subject: Spelling: DISC
ONLINE, DATABASE, and CD-ROM Professional magazines used to spell CD-ROM
discs with a "k" for the reasons described by Walter Giesbrecht.  We have
since succumbed to popular usage and all three magazines use "disc" for
CD-ROMs and optical media, and "disk" for traditional magnetic media.

Not that we have the last word...or might not change our minds again...and
what to do about magneto-optical media???  Hmmm?

Then again, some major computer magazines still insist on "on-line"  or
"data base" - horrors!

Nancy Garman
Editor, ONLINE
ngarman@tso.uc.edu
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From: news@tyr.unomaha.edu (UNO Network News Server)
Subject: Re: Spelling: DISC

How about DISCK?  Oh, well . . .

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