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“Disks” or “Discs”

Disks is predominantly used in American (US) English (en-US) while discs is predominantly used in British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) (en-GB).

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Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 0 prefer “disks” and 10 prefer “discs”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country disks discs Preference
United States 24 76 “discs”
United Kingdom 12 88 “discs”
India 48 52 “discs”
Philippines 40 60 “discs”
Canada 26 74 “discs”
Australia 22 78 “discs”
Liberia 0 0 Not enough data
Ireland 6 94 “discs”
New Zealand 24 76 “discs”
Jamaica 37 63 “discs”
Trinidad & Tobago 36 64 “discs”
Guyana 0 0 Not enough data
Usage

Examples in context

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“disks”

  • …to stick to the metal disks and cards they come with,…
  • …will cut cookies — circular disks from logs — of certain…
  • …but also playing and copying disks with third-party software.
  • Protoplanetary gas disks around young stars are observed…
  • The disks are then rotated and by…
  • …side of the double-sided floppy disks.
  • …and internal Serial ATA hard disks are frequently connected to such…
  • The resulting explosion shatters the disks and launches them into the…
  • …hard drives; simulated 3390 hard disks but had a smaller track
  • …placed in between the two disks.

“discs”

  • Other golden discs were presented to Clapton for…
  • …sound: one that employed conventional discs and another that recorded optically…
  • …has recorded for both Crisis Discs and Crooked Beat Records.
  • …Friends appeared on the Werk Discs label in 2009.
  • …a programme were on different discs to enable the radio operator…
  • …vinyl", and, unlike most coloured discs, which were usually as opaque…
  • Box Set (8 discs), contains: Symphoniae, Canticles of ecstasy,…
  • …BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs he described the degree he…
  • …opted for the optional front discs.
  • …balls in space (instead of discs on the backs of turtles).

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