Date   : Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:00:45 +0000
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: Grammar

I was going to mention this one.  I would always use "disc" in the
same way I always use "programme" in an attempt to allow British
English to prevail over any other variants.

But wasn't it the Acorn Atom Disk Pack as apposed to the Acorn Disc
Filing System?

What do people think of capitalisation of acronyms (ie. EPROMS, BASIC
rather than eprom, basic)?

Best wishes,


Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Wookie
To:  <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:02:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Grammar

In message <YEK11lPnqx5DFwtL@...>
          Mike Tomlinson <mike@...> wrote:

> 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.

What about "colour" and "color" according to my OED, "colour" is the
english version while the latter is the us spelling. But "color" comes
from latin and ISTR we used to use "color" many years ago. So why and
when did we add the "u" ?


Cheers Wookie.

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