Questions for English Majors

[Rob Sutherland]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:26:38 -0500
William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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)?

Well, when I can't be sure what's right, I always pick one and try to apply it
consistently, if you're wrong, at least it's easy to fix :-) 

What I do when trying to decide is first check dictionary.com - if the answer isn't 
obvious I pick the one that seems to fit the audience I'm writing for, failing that,
I pick the one that's shortest and easiest to spell. 

I just sent out 3 different pitches that all used the Drupal CMS package as a base.
So, is it a blog? A CMS? A portal? I used a different term for each writeup, based
on what I thought they were going to do with it. 

Rob 

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