The recording industry continued to show preference for the spelling disc when compact discs were introduced as a new digital recording format. The introduction of the home personal computer might have helped to introduce a separation between disc and disk in the public consciousness. In the 1950s, Wham-O marketed the Frisbee, whose shape alluded to the flying saucers of Roswell and science-fiction films flying disc became one preferred generic term for the toy (as in the name of the World Flying Disc Federation), which is today used in games such as disc golf. “ No Details of Flying Disk Are Revealed” read a subheadline on the front page of the Jedition of the Roswell Daily Record, while the Carlsbad Daily Current-Argus (July 9, 1947) went with “ ’Flying Disc’ Turns Out to Be Weather Balloon.” military weather balloon fed speculation about flying saucers near Roswell, New Mexico, the local media did not settle on one spelling to describe the object that landed in one rancher’s yard. The discrepancy between disc and disk turned up in other areas of popular culture. We shortened discotheque to disco, and the 70s music craze known as disco came about from that. French adopted disc for phonograph records to create its word for a music club, discotheque (originally a “disc library,” following the French word for “library,” bibliotheque). The recording industry showed preference for the spelling disc throughout the 20th century, though disk showed some use, and by the 1940s, disc jockey and disk jockey followed analogously. The disk of the gramophone vibrated, and the needle described minute waves of various forms on the glass plate. Then I removed from the gramophone the large horn, and sang, spoke, or shouted into the tube at the end of the swinging arm. Will play all makes of disc records, without extra attachments. Disc record briefly served as terminology in advertising that distinguished the flat records from cylinders. The modern phonograph, an invention credited to Thomas Edison in 1877, originally used waxed cylinders, but the flat “gramophone” discs we use today were introduced by Emile Berliner and were in regular use by the turn of the century. These are not spherical, as the name “globules,” by which they have been so generally designated, would seem to imply, but flattened or disk-shaped. In the one case, the extremity of the muscular fibre is abruptly truncated, or terminates with a perfect disc… Sometimes variation occurs within the same work:
Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, Volume 43, 1871 The different segments of the coccyx are connected together by an extension downwards of the anterior and posterior sacro-coccygeal ligaments, a thin annular disc of fibro-cartilage being interposed between each of the bones.Ī consideration of the variety in the different groups of barrows around Stonehenge, as, for example, that on Winterbourn Stoke Down, and of the manner in which those of bowl, bell, and disc-shape are mixed, taken in connection with the results obtained by their excavation, shows that these several forms and varieties were in use at one and the same time. His sister, to his spiritual vision, was always like the lunar disk when only a part of it is lighted. Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 1849 …when we hastened to the shore we could detect only a ripple in the water ruffling the disk of a star. The word found use as a descriptive word for round heavenly bodies as viewed from the earth, as well as for objects of similar shape occurring in nature (as in the body). But initially there was no consensus among English speakers on whether to use the Latin-derived spelling (with the c) or the Greek-derived spelling (with the k). The discus became a useful item of comparison for anything having a round, flat shape being called a disc or disk. The diskos was a round, flat object that Greek athletes would throw for distance during the ancient Olympics, a sporting tradition that continues in the modern Olympics with the spelling discus. To start from the beginning: the word derives from the Latin noun discus, which means “quoit, disk, dish.” The Greeks spelled this word as diskos, deriving it from the verb dikein (“to throw”). But there are some instances where one spelling is applied more often than the other. In the dictionary, disk and disc are shown as variant nouns separated by or, which means that they occur with more or less equal frequency in edited text.
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