For The Love Of Verbivores: Disk Versus Disc

Posted by Mr. Modem on Jan 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Long-time readers of my newspaper columns know that exploring the etymology of words is a hobby—some would say a passion—while others would characterize it as a pathological obsession in need of immediate medical intervention As a card-carrying verbivore, I have observed through the years that floppies, hard drives, CDs, DVDs, and other digital storage devices have been referred to as both “disks” and “discs”... 
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