From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 19 20: 1:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B27D14F66; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:01:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA07427; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:31:36 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:31:36 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , FreeBSD Chat , skb@crl.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/systat vmstat.c Message-ID: <19990920123136.M55065@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990920100725.T55065@freebie.lemis.com> <199909200233.TAA57089@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199909200233.TAA57089@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>; from Rodney W. Grimes on Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 07:33:33PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [moved to -chat] On Sunday, 19 September 1999 at 19:33:33 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> On Sunday, 19 September 1999 at 11:30:51 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >>>> On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Brian Feldman wrote: >>>> >>>>> green 1999/09/19 11:04:55 PDT >>>>> >>>>> Modified files: >>>>> usr.bin/systat vmstat.c >>>>> Log: >>>>> "Disks" is more correct than "Disks" could be. >>>> >>>> That seconds "Disks" should be "Discs" ;) >>> >>> In an international world ``Discs'' is the more correct form. >> >> Where do you get that from? > > I can't seem to find the article, but I believe it was a ``Devil's Advocate'' > column. Stan went on ad infitium about disc vs disk and even noted that > ``computer disk'' was really a sick usage. Interesting. Stan should know better. Of course, 'computer disk' sounds like 'software program'. That hurts. From the SOED: Disc, var. sp of DISK. Disk, disc (disk). 1664 [ad L. discus, a. Gr. diskos quoit, dish, disk. [...] Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message