Date   : Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:28:01 +0000
From   : Joel Rowbottom <joel@...>
Subject: Re: Grammar

At 10:20 06/02/2006, Chris Johns wrote:

>I think Acorn always used "disc" (You got a "Disc error" rather than 
>"Disk error")  but
>would accept  *DISK as well as *DISC. to select DFS.

I first met this argument at Wakefield BBC Micro User Group (as was 
then), when we had a rather lively debate over disc vs disk. ISTR the 
outcome was that "disk" was Americanised, and "disc" was the British spelling.

Crumbs, that must have been around 1986. Scarey stuff.



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