309190 - incorrect spelling of "disk" when saving a file for download

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 273267

(Mozilla Localizations :: en-GB / English (United Kingdom), defect)

Description

[Matthew Jones]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6

Hi,
I have never experienced this problem before, however I have today, reinstalled
my copy of Windows XP on my computer. After this completed, I downloaded Firefox
from the mozilla.org website, and installed it. I have, however immediately
noticed that there seems to be a grammar/spelling error is the text that is
displayed when presented with the "Save to" dialog. After clicking on a file, to
download/open it, you are presented with the dialog and options "Open with..."
and "Save to disc". Not a major problem, but the spelling is incorrect. The
"disc" you have spelt there, is either a Compact Disc or Digital Video Disc -
Disc as in "round, flat, object". It should be "disK" as in diskette - hard
diskette drive, floppy diskette drive.

No idea why this changed after downloading FF. I thought I had the most
up-to-date version before. :-/

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to a website where there are downloads.
2.Click one, to start a download.
3.See the spelling error in the dialog.

Actual Results:  
Said: "Save to Disc" in the dialog.

Expected Results:  
Should have said: "Save to Disk"

Im using a genuine, XP Home with SP2. Default Firefox skin. XP is setup for Uk
settings (as it was before I reinstalled the system).

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

You use en-GB, probably you downloaded en-US before. But don't ask me what if
both are correct now... :D

Comment 2

[Matthew Jones]

(In reply to comment #1)
> You use en-GB, probably you downloaded en-US before. But don't ask me what if
> both are correct now... :D

Last time I downloaded it, was when it came out as 1.0, and have updated it from
within since. Clicking the download link on the main page as I have done now.

Just noticed that my sister has the same spelling mistake on hers too, which is
was originally downloaded as 1.0, and has been updated..

Don't think it being GB or US should make a difference to the spelling. Each
word means something different... Spelling is probably the wrong way to define
the problem. More of a "wrong use of the word". :D

Comment 3

[Tom Pike]

Quoted from the Oxford English Dictionary (usually considered an authority on British English):

"disc (US also disk): [noun] 1 a flat, thin, round object. 2 (disk) an information storage device for a computer, on which data is stored either magnetically or optically. 3 a layer of cartilage separating vertebrae in the spine. 4 dated a gramophone record."

"hard disk (also hard drive): [noun] [Computing] a rigid non-removable magnetic disk with a large data storage capacity."

"disk drive: [noun] a device which allows a computer to read from and write on to computer disks."

The first entry appears to allow either spelling (though it's somewhat ambiguous), but the other 2 entries do appear to confirm the disK spelling.  It is generally accepted that disk is the correct word to use when referring to floppy disk or hard disk as it is a shortened form of diskette, whereas Disc is the correct term when referring to a Compact Disc.

"diskette: [noun] another term for FLOPPY."

Either way "Save to disc..." looks very wrong to me.

Comment 4

[Rob Nottage]

I was just about to report the same spelling error. Disc applies to optical discs. "Disk" isn't an Americanism for "disc" with regards to computer peripherals. "Mozilla Localizations" is, how-ever 8^P

Comment 5

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Over to Mark.

Comment 6

[Mark Tyndall]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 273267 ***