Questions for English Majors

[Lennart Sorensen]

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)?

My understanding of it is that disc is british and disk is american.  I
personally use disc for spiral track media (usually optical) and disk
for circular track media (usually magnetic).  Not really sure why I
started doing that, other than the official name for CD is Compact Disc
and everything else always seems to refer to floppy disk and hard disk
(I guess IBM may have had something to do with that).

Lennart Sorensen
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