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From: rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards)
Subject: Re: Single European Language
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In article <3sdj32$pi4@tardis.trl.OZ.AU>, jbm@newsserver.trl.oz.au
(Jacques Guy) wrote:


> disc n. Also disk. 1. Informal. A phonograph record. 2. Variant of disk.
> 
> Source? The Heritage Illustrated Dictionary of the English Language.
> Published by whom?
> 
> *American* Heritage Publishing Co., Inc. 
> and
> Houghton Mifflin Company
> 
> Boston/New York/Atlanta/Geneva, Illinois/Dallas/Palo Alto
> 
> I wonder where Boston, New York, Atlanta, Geneva (Illinois,
> not Switzerland), Dallas, and Palo Alto might be.... uh
> lemme think.... could that be U.S. of A.?????

The US edition of which is called the American Heritage dictionary, which
I have on-line. It has the entries:

disc (dIsk) n.

disc v.
 Variant of disk.  

No definitions - and under disk


disk also disc (dIsk) n.

1. A thin, flat, circular object or plate.
2. Something resembling such an object: The moon's disk was reflected in
the pond.
3.a. The disk used in a disc brake. b. A disk used on a disk harrow.
4. A round, flattened, platelike structure in an animal, such as an
intervertebral disk.
5. Botany. The enlarged area bearing numerous tiny flowers, as in the
flower head of composite plants, such as the daisy. Also called discus.
6.a. A phonograph record. b. An optical disk, especially a compact disk.
c. Computer Science. A magnetic disk.
7. A circular grid in a phototypesetting machine.



You obviously have the unAmerican Heritage dictionary. :-)

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