Is it Disk or Disc ?

dan shard
dan shard Posts: 722
edited April 2010 in MTB general
Always bugged me this one, Ive seen it both ways even on bike shops, for me it would be Disk but seen a few ways on here too

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  • ExeterSimon
    ExeterSimon Posts: 830
    I say disc but I think it can be both ways.

    One's probably American and the other not so American.
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  • Raymondavalon
    Raymondavalon Posts: 5,346
    Straight from my Mac's dictionary:

    disc
    noun
    variant spelling of disk

    USAGE Generally speaking, the U.S. spelling is disk and the British spelling is disc, although there is much overlap and variation between the two. In particular the spelling for senses relating to computers is nearly always disk, as in floppy disk, disk drive, etc., but compact disc, disc brakes, disc camera.

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  • .blitz
    .blitz Posts: 6,197
    We have discs, 'mericans have disks.

    Edit: Note to self: must type faster
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    its a Rotor :P
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  • .blitz
    .blitz Posts: 6,197
    :lol:
  • Raymondavalon
    Raymondavalon Posts: 5,346
    nicklouse wrote:
    its a Rotor :P

    Hehe, can you imagine calling a bike shop and asking for advice on "rotor brakes"?
    That would confuse the hell out of them...
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  • P-Jay
    P-Jay Posts: 1,478
    Raymondavalon wrote:
    nicklouse wrote:
    its a Rotor :P

    Hehe, can you imagine calling a bike shop and asking for advice on "rotor brakes"?
    That would confuse the hell out of them...

    Yeah, but I'd ask for a new Rotor for my Disc Brakes without a pause.
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  • xtreem
    xtreem Posts: 2,965
    Hi.

    Is it Tyres or Tires?
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    Xtreem wrote:
    Hi.

    Is it Tyres or Tires?

    depends on which language your spell checker is set to.

    English or American :wink:
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  • P-Jay
    P-Jay Posts: 1,478
    Xtreem wrote:
    Hi.

    Is it Tyres or Tires?

    Tyres, everytime, always.
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  • Hercule Q
    Hercule Q Posts: 2,781
    tires is how retards spell it cos they cant use a y cos its not a vowel :lol:
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  • Mancunianfightingcat
    Mancunianfightingcat Posts: 2,054
    and whilst we're at it microsoft, apple etc etc

    its COLOUR!!!!!
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  • Eskimo427
    Eskimo427 Posts: 288
    and Centre............

    and it's a group of people not a bunch!!!!
  • dan shard
    dan shard Posts: 722
    wot av eye startid ere?!
  • stuart_c-2
    stuart_c-2 Posts: 805
    Is it tomato, or tomato?

    Wait, no, that sounded better in my head........
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  • andyp79
    andyp79 Posts: 78
    As far as I know, "disc" is for when it's round. Disk is a hard disk, floppy disk, flash disk kinda thing.

    So it's a brake disc. Or a hard disk.

    The only use of "tires" that works in UK English is when related to being tired.

    Spellcheckers have taken all the thinking out. :(
    Why so serious?
  • v23
    v23 Posts: 217
    A hard disk is round. As are floppy disks.
  • andyp79
    andyp79 Posts: 78
    I know, but they are called disks rather than discs are they not?
    Why so serious?
  • Gwaredd
    Gwaredd Posts: 251
    Are they made of Aluminium or Aluminum though?
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  • thecrofter
    thecrofter Posts: 734
    Gwaredd wrote:
    Are they made of Aluminium or Aluminum though?

    When the element was first discovered it was called Aluminum, but shortly after it was changed to Aluminium....the Americans have never caught up with the rest of the world
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  • Gwaredd
    Gwaredd Posts: 251
    It was actually called Alumium first, then it was changed to Aluminum four years later. It was us English that added the 'ium' onto the end, so as not to disrupt the pattern of the 'iums' Sodium, Calcium, Strontium etc.

    Technically (whisper it) the American version is correct.
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  • bluechair84
    bluechair84 Posts: 4,352
    Gwaredd wrote:
    It was actually called Alumium first, then it was changed to Aluminum four years later. It was us English that added the 'ium' onto the end, so as not to disrupt the pattern of the 'iums' Sodium, Calcium, Strontium etc.

    Technically (whisper it) the American version is correct.


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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Mancunianfightingcat wrote:
    and whilst we're at it microsoft, apple etc etc

    its COLOUR!!!!!
    Adobe, suprisingly, get this right. Depending on whether you choose to install as English (US) or English (UK)
  • P-Jay
    P-Jay Posts: 1,478
    andyp79 wrote:
    I know, but they are called disks rather than discs are they not?

    it's nothing to do with roundness or otherwise. We spell it Disc, the Yanks Disk.

    But since the advent of the Floppy Disc and Mircosoft having such a monoply on computers for so long we've been Americanised

    I.E. if you bought a Disc Drive from BBC, Amstrad or Sinclair back in 80's it would have said Disc Drive on the box, the IBM one, Disk Drive. (I think I've got my US / UK Companies right there).

    It's the same as when kids ask "Can I get some cheese" when they mean "Could I have some cheese please", it's a net result of the huge amount of cheap American TV that's repeated constantly on TV.
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  • bluechair84
    bluechair84 Posts: 4,352
    P-Jay wrote:
    It's the same as when kids ask "Can I get some cheese".

    And the response is, 'yes, this is a store where cheese is bought and sold now what is it you want? A slap did you say?'
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