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It feels weird to me to call optical media disks instead of discs.

• chrisseaton 5y ago
  It's American English / British English isn't it?
  • rascul 5y ago
    Laser disc, compact disc, digital video disc, and blu-ray disc are (from what I understand) officially spelled with the c. I'm in the US and that is the typical way to spell it that I see, but I also see the k is generally used for hard disk and floppy disk. That said, there are a lot more instances of "disk" than "disc" used in the comments here so far.
    • theandrewbailey 5y ago
      The reasoning I've seen, is that disc is the recording media itself, whereas disk includes things like a sleeve, case, and/or IO heads.
  • Wowfunhappy 5y ago
    Nope! Apple—of all companies—has a support article on this: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201697 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201697
    • chrisseaton 5y ago
      > Nope! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc > the spelling disk is more popular in American English, while the spelling disc is more popular in British English
      • rascul 5y ago
        > In 1979, the Dutch company Philips, along with Sony, developed and trademarked the compact disc using the "c" spelling. The "c" spelling is now used consistently for optical media such as the compact disc and similar technologies.
• jonsen 5y ago
  "(The spelling disk and disc are used interchangeably except where trademarks preclude one usage, e.g. the Compact Disc logo. The choice of a particular form is frequently historical, as in IBM's usage of the disk form beginning in 1956 with the "IBM 350 disk storage unit").": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_storage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_storage