Re: What if.....?

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:25:46 +0100, Prai Jei
<pvstownsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:d9s4nd$h3g$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:

> Peter T. Daniels (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
> <42C0533A.1B92@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>> Prai Jei wrote:

>>> We could do with a purity law for English, to weed out inappropriate use
>>> of American words where there are perfectly good English words for the
>>> same thing/concept. So for example, no more use disks would be available,

>> "use disk" isn't an Americanism, AFAIK. What does it mean?

> Sorry an of got lost somewhere along the way. Use *of* disks I meant to
> forbid, for which the use of corresponding discs is to be substituted.

What a silly complaint, especially since <disk> is at least
as old in BrE as <disc>. Indeed, the OED says: 'The earlier
and better spelling is <disk>, but <disc> is now the more
usual form in British English, except in sense 2g, where
<disk> is commoner as a result of US influence'. (Sense 2g
is the computing sense.)

Brian
.

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