Larry asked,
| Why are computer floppy disks spelled disk??
Both spellings are acceptable to mean a cylinder whose radius greatly exceeds
its height. Traditionally, I believe, there's more preference for "disc" in
Britain and for "disk" in the US, but it isn't a case like color/colour or
center/centre, where one spelling is right and the other wrong in each coun-
try. Rather, both are accepted anywhere.
So really either is all right for magnetic data storage; some people prefer
the K because, as others have posted here, it's really a "diskette" and not a
disk. But then again the word "diskette" was invented for the purpose and
didn't exist before, I am quite sure, and might as well have been spelled
"disquette" by the manufacturers.
| Yet CDs, CD ROMs, and Mini Discs spelled DISC??
In the case of CDs, Sony and Philips agreed that they liked the C better and
promoted them as "compact discs." For MD, it was Sony alone who named it
MiniDisc. Had they preferred the K, we'd be using it too.
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