Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:36:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: green@FreeBSD.org (Brian F. Feldman), chat@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Chat), skb@crl.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/systat vmstat.c Message-ID: <199909200336.UAA57226@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <19990920123136.M55065@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Sep 20, 1999 12:31:36 pm"
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> [moved to -chat]
I'll loose most of the rest, unless I'm cc'ed but I think we are about
to the end of this one...]
>
> 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.
Perhaps it wasn't Stan :-).
> >From the SOED:
^ [In my worst southern accent ``Ain't that there the
English version....'' is there even an SOID?]
Wonder how the SOLatinD, if one existed, entries might look:
Disc, disk (disc). 1664 [ad L. discus, a. Gr. diskos quoit, dish,
disk. [...]
Disk, var. sp of DISC.
:-).
>
> Disc, var. sp of DISK.
>
> Disk, disc (disk). 1664 [ad L. discus, a. Gr. diskos quoit, dish,
> disk. [...]
>
> Greg
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