24 Jan
2013
24 Jan
'13
3:05 p.m.
On 24 January 2013 22:02, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
Why is a floppy "disk", but a CD-ROM "disc"?
"Disk" is American; "disc" is British. (And therefore Correct.)
Philips invented it. They're Dutch, i.e. European, and favoured
British English over the new-fangled colonial version.
That's AFAIK, anyway.
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