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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.

Yet the BSD quota stuff uses "disc".  The document even mentions that this
is because the implementor was from Australia.


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> a80@mindlink.UUCP (Greg Goss) writes:
>> fl...@dgp.toronto.edu writes:
>> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>> >t...@otter.hpl.hp.com (Tom Gardner)
>> writes:
>> >=Does programming an analogue computer count?
>> >On this side of the Atlantic, it's "analog."
>> Goodness, a TRANS-ATLANTIC spelling flame.  Wrong too.  On *this* side of
>> this side of the atlantic, to give a counterexample, it's "analogue".
> Hmmmm.  Is this just a local accent?  Or a Canadian westerner disagreeing with
> Toronto?
> But on THIS end of the north side of this side of the Atlantic, I don't know
> ANYONE who uses "analogue".
As a native Calgarian, this westerner recalls "analogue" (and "catalogue"
and "cheque" for that matter.)

> 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.
-- 
Terry Gaetz   --   ga...@uwovax.uwo.ca    or    gaetz@uwovax.BITNET

[ all the articles for analog vs analogue deleted ]

Oooooh, I tried not to, I really tried not to.

 But I had to.

I ran webster on both analog and analogue and yes both are
there, BUT THEY"RE DIFFERENT!

to wit:

an.a.logue \'an-<\e>l-,<o.>g, -,<a:>g\ n (1826)
 [F analogue, fr. analogue analogous, fr. Gk analogos]
    1: something that is analogous or similar to something else
    2: an organ similar in function to an organ of another animal or plant 
    but different in structure and origin
    3: a chemical compound structurally similar to another but differing 
    often by a single element of the same valence and group of the periodic 
    table as the element it replaces
    4: a synthetic food product made of vegetable matter (as soybeans) 
    and used as a meat substitute

and:

2 an.a.log \'an-<\e>l-,<o.>g, -,<a:>g\ adj (1946)
    1: of, relating to, or being an analogue
    2a: being or relating to a mechanism in which data is represented by 
    continuously variable physical quantities
    2b: of or relating to an analog computer
    2c: being a watch having hour and minute hands


In other words, and according to _AN AMERICAN DICTIONARY_,
analog can mean analogue, but not necessarily the other way
round.


And does this mean that early computers were made from
soybeans?


			- peterd


P.S. I'm really sorry, I just couldn't help myself.
Really, don't flame, I just throw them away anyways...


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In article <23...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> pet...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) writes:
* ...
* an.a.logue \'an-<\e>l-,<o.>g, -,<a:>g\ n (1826)
*  [F analogue, fr. analogue analogous, fr. Gk analogos]
*...
*     4: a synthetic food product made of vegetable matter (as soybeans) 
*     and used as a meat substitute
* ...
* an.a.log \'an-<\e>l-,<o.>g, -,<a:>g\ adj (1946)
* ...
*     2b: of or relating to an analog computer
* ...
* And does this mean that early computers were made from
* soybeans?
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How do you think the term _bean_counter_ originated?
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regardz,
Ken

>> 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.