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Be sure not to ask for a drive when all you need is a disk.
* A hard drive and a hard disk are much the same thing but when it comes to removable computer media, the drive is the machinery that turns and reads the disk. There is also a book version of the site. Although some may think he is too picky when he makes distinction between classic and classical or imply and infer, it's worth reading his explanations and even printing the list (if you want to print it, check this text file).
Paul Brians, a professor of English, has compiled an extensive list of common errors in English usage.
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