Disc vs Disk Have you ever been confused by which spelling of
disc (or is it disk) to use as this is a word that is used in
many fields and not just in geometry to refer to thin, circular
geometric objects. The situation is confusing because the word
processor that you are using to type accepts both the spellings
But are you sure the spelling you have chosen in the context is
correct? If you find it hard to tell, read on this article as it
clearly explain where to make use of disc and where to use disk.
For those who are more interested in facts, it is disk that
appeared on the scene much earlier in 17th century while the
word disc got included in dictionaries as late as 18th century.
While disk had the word risk to keep company with, disc came
from discus which was a Latin word. The word with ‘k’ became
popular in US while the word with ‘c’ became preferred in UK.
When IBM launched a storage device, it chose k over c naming it
hard disk drive. But when other companies came up with CD’s as
storage device, the