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- From: jpo@pfbs.philips.se (James Poole)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Disc/Disk (was Re: Presently)
- Message-ID: <928@idanm.pfbs.philips.se>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:41:54 GMT
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- judson@watserv.ucr.edu (Mike Judson) writes:
- : In article <3066@eram.esi.COM.AU> dave@eram.esi.COM.AU (Dave Horsfall) writes:
- : > 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.
- :
- : I think the New York Times is in error. A Compact Disc (though I can't
- : cite it) is (I think) a patented name, whereas compact disk is not.
- : Whoever designed the compact disc wanted it to be distinguished from
- : a regular disk and hence spelled it with a "c."
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- The use of the word Disk seems to come from that other charming American
- invention "The Diskette". The only computer company which still seems to
- use the word disc is Amstrad on its CPC computers.
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