Poll: Disk or Disc?

[verindae]

I always figured it was disc if you're talking about the circly plastic things you put in computers and game consoles and DVD players.

Disk only refers to the floppy kind as far as I know.

That's pretty much it as far as common use goes however dictionary.com states the 2 as being interchangeable, Disc deriving from the original Disk, the former apparently being the preferred English version, the latter being the preferred American English.

Check the entry it has more to say on the subject than you'd imagine lol

EDIT: Extracted from the entry

Computing Dictionary
disc definition
storage, spelling
British spelling of " disk", normally only used for " compact disc".
(1995-07-30)

 

[cheese_wizington]

Disk

Disc

 

[DJDandeelion]

Disk

Disc

Thank you!

Also its why I spell DJ - "disk jockey", not "disc jockey".
because so many radio stations stopped using CD player, and use hard drives.

 

[ckam]

Either one is probably fine.

 

[Sean Wcisel]

A "disc" is anything physical, round, and plastic (short for "discus", as someone mentioned above).

a "disk" refers to either a floppy diskette or a general storage device i.e. a hard drive. That's why you see the acronym HDD (hard disk drive).

 

[bam13302]

eh, their both fine choices whatever floats your boat

 

[AfroTree]

Disc

but I prefer disk..it just seems more natural

also
Disk thrower xD

 

[spartan231490]

I feel outnumbered, but I've always known it as disk. I'd never even seen it as disc before this thread.

 

[muckinscavitch]

According to Merriam-Websters dictionary, Disc is a variant of Disk. Both are acceptable but Disk is the original.

 

[Baldry]

I DON'T KNOW!!!

But I think they're both the same thing and I say its "disk"

 

[IcyEvils]

I think of it as "Disc" is like a discus, the "c" is round so it applies to round objects. The other is for anything that houses a disc, i.e. Floppies, HDD.

 

[Xero Scythe]

With the C, it just seems more like a Disc (The word describing what it is, I mean.)

 

[Tifataf]

I dunno if this will help...

http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/english/data/d0081928.html

I voted disc though

 

[Salizer]

I normally spell it 'disc' when talking about a cd.

But sometimes I spell it 'disk' when writing in my native language(Danish).

 

[SUPA FRANKY]

Ohh! ohh! I got a better answer! How about who gives a monkey's ass how its spelled, as long as people know what your talking about?

OP: I think Disk is for floppy and Disc is for a cd. I;m not 100% sure though.

 

[Judgement101]

Ohh! ohh! I got a better answer! How about who gives a monkey's ass how its spelled, as long as people know what your talking about?

OP: I think Disk is for floppy and Disc is for a cd. I;m not 100% sure though.

If you didn't care, why did you come here?

 

[Julianking93]

I like disc just because for some reason, I prefer C to K

 

[Slaanax]

For me a Disc is a CD-Rom, where as a disk is an old 3.5 hard disk. Floppy Disk to me is a personal problem. Wait, I mean its one the big old 8 inch disk. Wow I have been messing with computers for so long =/.

 

[Treblaine]

My friend and I were arguing over how to spell Disc (disk) like as in an Xbox 360 game disc (disk). And I was wondering, which one of us is right? So I was wondering what the all of you think is right

Both:
-Disk for magnetic based (hard disk drive, Floppy Disk, etc)
-Disc for optical based (DVD, CD, Blu-ray)

 

[Amphoteric]

Both are correct but it depends on context: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2300