Common Errors in English

disc/disk
"Compact disc" is spelled with a "C" because that's how its inventors decided it should be rendered; but a computer disk is spelled with a "K" (unless it's a CD- ROM, of course). The New York Times insisted for many years on the spelling "compact disk" in its editorial pages, often incongruously next to ads containing the patented spelling "disc"; but now even it has given in. [read more]

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