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Article #2196Re: To partition or not to partition?
From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 00:00
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Simon Slavin <slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk.NOJUNK> wrote:
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> PS: Explaining about the spelling. I use 'disk' and 'program' when
> I'm writing about the computing things, and the British English
> spellings for frisbees and TV schedules.
According to the very British Eric Partridge's `Usage and abusage'
(Penguin, 1973):
Disc is a mere variant of disk, `the earlier and better spelling'
(according to the OED). (Zoology and , in some sense, Botany employ the
spelling disc.)
Rowland.
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