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by robin_reala 1858 days ago
It’s a en-GB vs en-US thing, that warrants its own Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc
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> Early BBC technicians differentiated between disks (in-house transcription records) and discs (the colloquial term for commercial gramophone records, or what the BBC dubbed CGRs).

I love that.

In my own usage I've always made the magnetic distinction without really knowing why. At least now I can identify the boundary as 'magnetism'..!