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GLORY JASMINE said:
Wrong kind of disk love! The one you're referring to is disc not disk. Lol. Oh well![emoji]128522[/emoji](I posted pics of the goat babies!!!)

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American English preferred spelling, 1660s, "round flat surface," from Latindiscus "quoit, discus, disk," from Greek diskos, from dikein "throw," fromPIE *dik-skos-, from root *deik- "to show, pronounce solemnly; also inderivatives referring to the directing of words or objects" [Watkins]. 

Sense of "phonograph disk" is 1888; computing sense is from 1947. Diskjockey first recorded 1941; dee-jay is from 1955; DJ is 1961; videoversion veejay is 1982. Disk-drive is from 1952.

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Fyllis said:

disk





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American English preferred spelling, 1660s, "round flat surface," from Latindiscus 
"quoit, discus, disk," from Greek diskos
, from dikein 
"throw," fromPIE *dik-skos-
, from root *deik- 
"to show, pronounce solemnly; also inderivatives referring to the directing of words or objects" [Watkins]. 

Sense of "phonograph disk" is 1888; computing sense is from 1947. Diskjockey 
first recorded 1941; dee-jay 
is from 1955; DJ 
is 1961; videoversion veejay 
is 1982. Disk-drive 
is from 1952.





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Um weirdness! I looked it up and it was spelled DISC jockey. Hmmmm...welp like I said before...oh well![emoji]128536[/emoji]

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Merchant Venice? The Merchant of Venice is a play by Shakespeare, but ... as Glory says, "Oh, well". 

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