Disc is definitely the correct UK English spelling for this speleothem, so your suggestion makes sense. I also think the intention is to describe shields, so 'disc, shield' is better. Thanks for helping out sourcing translations in Māori for the symbol additions. Paul On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 21:12, Bruce Mutton <bruce@tomo.co.nz> wrote:

While looking at extending the current mi: translation I noticed that there may be a lack of consistency with the en: spelling of disc/disk.

A table from the current texts.txt shows what we have a present.

*Therion syntax name en translation*

therion: point disc-pillar en: disc on pillar

therion: point disc-pillars en: discs on pillars

therion: point disc-stalactite en: disc on stalactite

therion: point disc-stalactites en: discs on stalactites

therion: point disc-stalagmite en: disc on stalagmite

therion: point disc-stalagmites en: discs on stalagmites

therion: point disk en: disk

After consulting with a venerable caver who lives nearby, and happens to be a linguist, and checking with a bit of googling myself, it seems to me that ‘disk’ is favoured by US English and for things like computer disks, and ‘disc’ is favoured by UK English and for things like plates or ploughing discs.

So would there be any objection to changing Therion’s texts.txt to include:

en: disc… # use disc for generic English translations

en_UK: disc… and # use disc for UK English

en_US: disk… # use disk for US English

in all cases?

And another thing. I’m wondering if the current point disk is referring to what are also commonly known as shields?

In which case:

therion: point disk en: disc, shield

might be a better translation for ‘point disk’?

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