View Single Post
Old 12-19-2009, 01:09 PM   #4
Clodfobble
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 20,012
Pie's writeup is the answer I came here to give, but she already gave it. Outside of technology, "disc" is always the correct version (e.g., Discworld) because that's how the Latin root is spelled. I don't really know where the word disk-with-a-k came from, but I was taught long ago that it referred specifically to rewritable, magnetic data.
Clodfobble is offline   Reply With Quote