[i_am_new_here]

This is so off topic and/but (currently) still the top comment.

Since when would anyone remember how to properly write something, when the representation he has is the phonetics in his head?

Nobody thinks "It's disk, because it comes from diskette."

Why do people argue as if anyone would think like that? - Though I don't doubt that it's the origin. Are we supposed to know the origin of (every)thing(s)? - We mostly don't.

To then write it "disc" makes sense, except you are from Germany.

To then pseudo-intellectually pretend that people know whatever and what not and don't rather go by guts feel (what it sounds like) is blatantly dishonest.

[wolco2]

20 posts in two years and you use 21 to complain this is still off topic post is still #1. Drop a parent level post if you have something better to discuss, don't reply on this post saying this doesn't meet your standards

[jcelerier]

> Nobody thinks "It's disk, because it comes from diskette."

uh ? that's pretty much how I think all the time when writing words for which I'm not sure of the spelling