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HobbyProggy11-Dec-15 0:29

11-Dec-15 0:29

7B for that

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Re: WSO FOSW OTD 11. December 2015 Winner!

chriselst11-Dec-15 0:31

chriselst

11-Dec-15 0:31

Oops.

HARDDISK.

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HobbyProggy11-Dec-15 1:09

11-Dec-15 1:09

We have a winner !

Congrats you are up on monday

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Jochen Arndt11-Dec-15 0:49

11-Dec-15 0:49

Chriselst is from the UK where it is disc. Disk is American English.

To be more pedantic Poke tongue | ;-P

: Shouldn't it be 4-4 in this case?

HobbyProggy11-Dec-15 1:10

11-Dec-15 1:10

Oh, okay, well i didn't know of that difference.
4-4?
7 letters were right ?

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Jochen Arndt11-Dec-15 1:18

11-Dec-15 1:18

Not 7 letters but two words (or hyphenated): "hard disk" or "hard-disk".

Mainly the Germans are creating new words by concatening terms.

HobbyProggy11-Dec-15 1:25

11-Dec-15 1:25

i thought it to be 1 word but if i am wrong i apologise for that :/

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Jochen Arndt11-Dec-15 1:33

11-Dec-15 1:33

Not a problem (at least for me).

Maybe native English speaking people can enlight us.

If you google for "harddisk" or "harddisc" (with quotes), you will get hits from AT/CH/DE/ and some Scandinavian countries on the first pages.

HobbyProggy11-Dec-15 1:38

11-Dec-15 1:38

Yeah but also if you write it hard disk i get AT/CH/DE results might be location checking by google

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Jochen Arndt11-Dec-15 1:51

11-Dec-15 1:51

If I search for "hard disk" if have only two German results on the first page (Wikipedia and a price comparison portal) because I have configured Google to use German and English as preferred languages.

But ask some dictionaries:
http://dict.leo.org/ende/index_en.html#/search=harddisk&searchLoc=0&resultOrder=basic&multiwordShowSingle=on[^]

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shows:

Quote:
Did you mean:
hard disk

HobbyProggy11-Dec-15 1:54

11-Dec-15 1:54

okay, so it's hard disk

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chriselst11-Dec-15 2:49

chriselst

11-Dec-15 2:49

I think that if someone got it eright then it was a good clue.

Unfortunately I have to set the enxt on Mondya and I've been in the pubn simce getting ti right so Monday's could be interesting.

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HobbyProggy11-Dec-15 2:57

11-Dec-15 2:57

I believe in you Smile | :)

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chriselst11-Dec-15 3:01

chriselst

11-Dec-15 3:01

You're a fool Laugh | :laugh:

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HobbyProggy11-Dec-15 3:34

11-Dec-15 3:34

So shall i run, Gandalf?

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908236511-Dec-15 3:12

9082365

11-Dec-15 3:12

Jochen Arndt wrote:
Chriselst is from the UK where it is disc. Disk is American English.

Nope. It's English English. Both forms are used in UK but these days usually 'disc' applies to records of the vinyl type and CDs after 'disco' from 'discotheque' which is, of course a French word. The 'disc' spelling is one of the many Romanticisms (that's Romance languages, principally French, not hugs and kisses) undertaken by dictionary writers and grammarians of the 18th and 19th Centuries based mostly in Edinburgh so technically it's Franco-Scottish English. Those of us who would quite like it if English was returned to its true Saxon roots will always prefer 'disk' at all times.

All of which forms an interesting sidebar but the fact is that UK IT people tend to adopt terminology from US standards so, just as we program computers but programme TV and create dialogs in VS while engaging in dialogues with our colleagues, a hard disk in UK has always been a hard disk, irrespective of what spelling we may use for other disks.

Jochen Arndt11-Dec-15 4:18

11-Dec-15 4:18

Thank you for the explanation.

pkfox11-Dec-15 1:12

pkfox

11-Dec-15 1:12

I can only think of BLADDER but not enough letters Laugh | :laugh:

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HobbyProggy11-Dec-15 1:26

11-Dec-15 1:26

Add an s on it! that always helps to cope with not enough letters XD

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pkfox11-Dec-15 1:54

pkfox

11-Dec-15 1:54

In your hint you said everyone has it which inferred one

BLADDERS

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HobbyProggy11-Dec-15 2:06