Questions for English Majors

[William O'Higgins]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:41:45AM -0500, Colin McGregor wrote:
>I am doing the follow-up to my Linux Journal "A Temporary Internet Lounge"
>article, and the question has come up, do I use "disk" and/or "disc". As in
>"hard disk" or "compact disc", which is correct? Both? If both "disc" and
>"disk" are correct, under conditions should I be using one or the other?
>
>Similar story with "RAM disk" vs. "RAMdisk" vs. "Ramdisk" vs. "RAM disc" vs.
>... again which is correct (if any)?

This is a style issue, similar to email vs. e-mail.  Ordinarily I would
send you to the magazine web site to look at the style guide for
writers, but that page
(http://www.linuxjournal.com/xstatic/author/authguide) is given over to
issues of what they will publish, not how.  You have two choices - email
Don Marti from that page and ask, or simply choose a convention and use
it - if an editor doesn't like you convention they will change it, but
thank you for your consistency.
-- 

yours,

William

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