On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:33 PM, b_s-wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It all depends on whether you prefer Latin [discus] or Greek [diskos]. The > Latin is derived from Greek, so perhaps disk is better. > > Since people can't spell anyway, and rely on Micro$oft's error-ridden > dictionary, it probably doesn't matter. Your choice. I prefer Greek--it's > more fun to read. > > Betty
I suppose I should give up on most of these things. Soon, the dictionaries will reflect common usage that "loose" means the same as "lose". I was even dealing with an engineer at work that thought they were equivalent, or that the verb "to lose" in the present tense was "I loose". Compared to that, disc v. disk is minor, in my book. Pretty soon, all words in a spell checker dictionary that are close in spelling to the current word will used equivalently. "work" and "word" will be equivalent. "Stop" and "stoop". etc. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
