On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 06:03:45PM +0100, Mo McKinlay wrote:
>
> # Myself, I still think the "disc" spelling is horribly wrong --- I've
> # heard people say that even in the U.K. and Commonwealth countries, the
> # term "hard disk" is much more commonly used.
>
> Certainly in the UK:
>
> hard disk
> floppy disk
> CD-ROM disc
as an english native, please allow me to disagree with you. i think anyone
who was brought up in the acorn world uses disc for all three.
of course `drive' has an unambiguous spelling.
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