Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269763AbUICXrA (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 19:47:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269986AbUICXrA (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 19:47:00 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:52874 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269763AbUICXqr (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 19:46:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 16:46:43 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Grzegorz =?ISO-8859-1?B?SmFfX2tpZXdpY3o=?= Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, miquels@cistron.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-Id: <20040903164643.0d88cf50.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <41389EC9.1020708@pointblue.com.pl> References: <2f4958ff04090301326e7302c1@mail.gmail.com> <41383142.4080201@hist.no> <2f4958ff04090302141bc222e5@mail.gmail.com> <41388B59.6060702@pointblue.com.pl> <1094225344.8102.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <41389EC9.1020708@pointblue.com.pl> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2242 Lines: 43 > Ok, Planty of times I did asked Brits and Americans if there's any > difference. Neither did say that either disc or disk is more correct. >From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_or_disc Disk or Disc? The divergence in spelling is due in part to the way in which the words originated. Disk came into the English language in the mid-17th century, and was modelled on words such as whisk; disc arose some time later, and was based on the original Latin root discus. In the 19th century, disc became the conventional spelling for audio recordings made on a flat plate, such as the gramophone record; this usage gave rise to the modern term disc jockey. Early BBC technicians differentiated between disks (in-house transcription records) and discs (the colloquial term for commercial gramophone records, or what the BBC dubbed CGRs). By the 20th century, the c-spelling was more popular in British English, while the k-spelling was preferred in American English. In the 1940s, when the American company IBM pioneered the first hard disk storage devices, the k-spelling was used. In 1979 the European company Philips, along with Sony, developed the compact disc medium; here, the c-spelling was chosen, possibly because of the predominating British spelling, or because the compact disc was seen as a successor to the analogue disc record. Whatever their heritage, in computer jargon today it is common for the k-spelling to refer mainly to magnetic storage devices, while the c-spelling is customary for optical media such as the compact disc and similar technologies. Even in the computing field, however, the terms are used inconsistently; software documentation often uses the k-spelling exclusively. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/