Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 18:07:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 18:06:52 -0500 Received: from smtpnotes.altec.com ([209.149.164.10]:34065 "HELO smtpnotes.altec.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 18:06:44 -0500 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ALTEC From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com To: "Michael B. Trausch" cc: "Jeremy M. Dolan" , Alan Chandler , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <862569E6.007EDB83.00@smtpnotes.altec.com> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 17:04:56 -0600 Subject: Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To confuse things even more, I have a "Hewlett-Packard 9114 Disc Drive," which is really a 720K 3.5-inch diskette drive. Wayne "Michael B. Trausch" on 01/31/2001 05:00:34 PM To: "Jeremy M. Dolan" cc: Alan Chandler , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (bcc: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec) Subject: Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Jeremy M. Dolan wrote: > > On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 00:19:56 +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > > The thing that struck me most was the spelling of disc with a 'c'. As > > an Englishman this is the correct spelling for me most of the time, > > but I have come to accept "as a technical term" disk (as in American) > > is the right name for these devices. > > Disk is spelled 'disk' except for Compact Disc and Digital Versatile > Disc. If it wasn't 3:30 in the morning, a patch would be attached. > Anymore, even I refer to everything as discs, I used to be hardcore in establishing the difference between disks, discs, and diskettes. However, it's really useless, given that nobody even understands "diskette" in the general public when I say it, I wind up explaining it. - Mike =========================================================================== Michael B. Trausch fd0man@crosswinds.net Avid Linux User since April, '96! AIM: ML100Smkr Contactable via IRC (DALNet) or AIM as ML100Smkr =========================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/