Date   : Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:45:11 +0000
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: Grammar

In article <KPEJIAAKPMLHODBKGGOEAEACCCAA.martin@...>,
Martin Rigby <martin@...> writes

>Returning to the "programme vs progam" observation (I wouldn't say it is

[...]

>whereas
>the "non-fashionable English spelling" was without the "me", as per the
>"American" spelling.

No-one's yet commented on the usage of "disc" vs. "disk".  I was taught
that "disk" was the American English version, "disc" the British English
version, and that along the same lines of "program/programme", "disk"
should be used when referring to floppy discs.

Another reason for this usage put to me was that "disk" originally
referred to 8" floppies, and when the 5.25" variant was introduced, it
was referred to as a "diskette" (i.e. a smaller version of disk.)
"discette" doesn't really work in its written or spoken form.

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