Poll: Disk or Disc?

Beau

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I usually use disc, I think. I've never really paid much attention to it though.

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disc
n. & v.
Variant of disk.

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disk also disc
n.
A thin, flat, circular object or plate.
Something resembling such an object: The moon's disk was reflected in the pond.

The disk used in a disc brake.
A disk used on a disk harrow.
A round, flattened, platelike structure in an animal, such as an intervertebral disk.
Botany. The enlarged area bearing numerous tiny flowers, as in the flower head of composite plants, such as the daisy. Also called discus.
Computer Science.
A magnetic disk, such as a floppy disk or hard disk.
The data stored on such a disk: read the disk that came with the manual.
An optical disk, especially a compact disk. See Usage Note at compact disk.
A phonograph record.
A circular grid in a phototypesetting machine.

tr.v. disked, also disced disk·ing, disc·ing disks, discs
To work (soil) with a disk harrow.
To make (a recording) on a phonograph record.
 

Jzero

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Originally posted by: 308nato
I pull a DISK through the field. I put a DISC in the pc.

Actually, we've always called frisbee a "disc."
CD/DVD is "disc."
Floppy "disk" which is actually short for "diskette"
You herniate a "disc" in your spine.

Actually after typing all that out, I'm going to go back and vote "disc" b/c the only time it's ever "disk" it's actually short for "diskette."
 

Jzero

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Originally posted by: 308nato
I refuse to call anything a disc which is visually square.

It's circular if you pull it out of it's protective shielding, I assure you :)
 

308nato

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Originally posted by: Jzero
Originally posted by: 308nato
I refuse to call anything a disc which is visually square.

It's circular if you pull it out of it's protective shielding, I assure you :)

Yes. But I only see the case. A square. If your downtown is a circle, most call it the square. It just seems silly. I think I watch George Carlin to much.

 

geno

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Originally posted by: 308nato
I refuse to call anything a disc which is visually square.

Do you refuse to call it floppy too, due to it's rigity? I bet you call them "Hard Square Data Storage Devices" instead of floppy disks, huh :p

The word "diskette" is derived from the old 5.25 floppy disks, "diskette" implies a small disk, but the base spelling still comes back to disk in that application.
 

kami

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Oct 9, 1999
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When people call DVDs "disks" it drives me mad.

DISC for optical stuff
DISK for everything else.
 

DaveSimmons

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Originally posted by: kami
When people call DVDs "disks" it drives me mad.
DISC for optical stuff
DISK for everything else.
Exactly, and as genocide notes, floppy diskette ("little disk") to distinguish 3.5" and 5.25" floppies from the original 8" floppy disks.