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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/systat vmstat.c
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


-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25)                    rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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