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Is "disc" British English? I have always understood "disk" to mean a floppy disk or hard disk (as short for diskette), and "disc" to refer to circular discs li

by tomc1985 6y ago

Is "disc" British English? I have always understood "disk" to mean a floppy disk or hard disk (as short for diskette), and "disc" to refer to circular discs like CDs. (Yes, disks have discs inside them but they are squareish to hold) Seeing people refer to floppy disks as discs really bugs me for some reason.

nicoburns 6y ago
> Is "disc" British English? Yes, more or less. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc
mnw21cam 6y ago
Seeing people refer to hard drives as "disks" bugs me as well, because they aren't by any stretch of the imagination diskettes.