{"id":20886,"date":"2017-04-11T21:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=20886"},"modified":"2017-04-11T21:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T21:00:45","slug":"english-computer-science-disk-vs-disc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-computer-science-disk-vs-disc\/","title":{"rendered":"English, computer science:  disk vs disc"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, different versions of familiar words are interesting.  The tutor shares a find.<\/h1>\n<p>In the context of computers, I recall reading dis<em>k<\/em>.  &#8220;Is it dis<em>c<\/em>?&#8221; I would often wonder.  Today the matter surfaced, so I looked it up.  I got two points of view:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Collins:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Disk<\/em> is particularly used in the context of computers, such as hard disk drive (hdd).  <em>Disc<\/em> can be used that way as well, but is the proper way to refer to disc brakes, flying disc, disc jockey, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Merriam-Webster:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Disk<\/em> and <em>disc<\/em> are interchangeable.  Disk jockey is valid.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><u>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus<\/u>.  Glasgow:  HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.<\/p>\n<p><u>Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/u>.  Springfield:  Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/searchstorage.techtarget.com\/definition\/hard-disk-drive\">searchstorage.techtarget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, different versions of familiar words are interesting. The tutor shares a find. In the context of computers, I recall reading disk. &#8220;Is it disc?&#8221; I would often wonder. Today the matter surfaced, so I looked it up. I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-computer-science-disk-vs-disc\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English, computer science:  disk vs disc<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,2142,5],"tags":[2247],"class_list":["post-20886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-computer-systems","category-english","tag-disk-vs-disc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20890,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886\/revisions\/20890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}