Front drum brakes, wheel loostening?

[Daniel Wilcox]

Jasper Janssen wrote: <snip>
> Except for optical storage, which are discs. This of course lets the question remain: what do you
> call a magneto-optical? Disk or disc? Or both: disck?
>
> Jasper

You call it whatever you like, disc being derived from discus and disk being the US spelling of
disc. Disck would make you look disc-lexic *groan*

 

[Sheldon Brown]

Jobst wrote:

>>My introduction to this was with disk drives with carbon as a wear layer on sliders and disks. (In
>>the storage industry the word is spelled with a "k")

Jasper Janssen wrote:

> Except for optical storage, which are discs. This of course lets the question remain: what do you
> call a magneto-optical? Disk or disc? Or both: disck?

Here's where our logical friends the French come to the rescue, it's "disques" Pas de problème!

However, in Belguium, they're disckx.

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