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- From: TSOS@uni-duesseldorf.de (Detlef Lannert)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Disc/Disk (was Re: Presently)
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:12:30 GMT
- Organization: Universitaetsrechenzentrum, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet, Duesseldorf
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- Message-ID: <TSOS.261.727690350@uni-duesseldorf.de>
- References: <1993Jan17.232011.3285@news.columbia.edu> <C1179w.4yx@ecf.toronto.edu> <1993Jan18.043428.13684@news.columbia.edu> <3066@eram.esi.COM.AU>
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- Keywords: programme, program, endless, argument
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- In article <3066@eram.esi.COM.AU> dave@eram.esi.COM.AU (Dave Horsfall) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan18.043428.13684@news.columbia.edu>,
- > gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:
- >
- >| The specification calls them compact discs, the audio industry calls them
- >| compact discs, and the New York Times calls them compact disks, and I don't
- >| know why, but it annoys everyone in the audio industry.
- >
- >The trend appears to be that anything flat and round is a disC, whereas
- >the same spinning around inside a computer is a disK.
- >
- >Any ideas from whence this came?
-
- From the same people who invented the "programme"/"program" distinction.
- And certainly for the same reasons.
-
- [Note: We haven't had this for weeks!]
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- Detlef Lannert DC3EK E-Mail: tsos@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
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