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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words?

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Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words?

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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

I heard some people say theyre the same thing, but others are adamant that they have different meanings. Which is it?

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Wikipedia tells me that they were initially developed in England and finally patented in Germany, so I’m guessing that’s why the British spelling is used in that case.

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