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>> Spellings often depend on where a technology comes from.  Thus we have 
>> computer disks and compact discs both happily being sold from the same 
>> stereo stores.
>
>A good example.  This one tripped me up back when I was an eager young
>grad student at Cornell.  I kept getting error messages when I was using
>VM/CMS, and for the life of me, I couldn't see where I was going wrong.
>I took it to a consultant who informed me that CMS insists on "disk"
>rather than "disc".  It seemed pretty silly to me that it wouldn't
>accept either spelling - they both looked correct to me.

Along the same lines there was the time I was testing my COBOL
dialect-to-dialect translator and couldn't for the life of me see why
the VAX compiler didn't like

INITIALISATION SECTION.

It took me a while to realize the VAX compiler wanted INITIALIZATION.
The original machine? An ICL.