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Waggers TALK 10:36, 13 July 2023 (UTC) Certainly, when I was a graduate student in the late 70s the term was already seen as archaic and was little used even in the University. I suspect it's just obsolete public school / undergraduate slang, but as you say, finding good refs to support this is difficult.
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The article contains a table of examples. I think the row that describes disc versus disk was incorrect, or at least oversimplified, at least for American English. For example, it said that American English prefers "disc", but uses "disk" in the "computing" context. Wikipedia actually has an article devoted to the subject, Spelling of disc. I ...