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I've always wondered if Image magick was named after Aleister Crowley's book. The spelling of magick is the same.
by xupybd 4y ago
I've always wondered if Image magick was named after Aleister Crowley's book. The spelling of magick is the same.
- mathieuh 4y agoIt’s always come across as nothing more than a “ye olde” spelling to me.
- xupybd 4y agoI think he came up with the spelling. https://pluralism.org/magick https://pluralism.org/magick
- yesenadam 4y agoIt's the old spelling, e.g. Johnson's dictionary (1755) only has the -ck spelling and quotes Shakespeare and Milton spelling it so. https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=magick https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=m...
- xupybd 4y agoTIL, that's good to know. Thanks.
- hetspookjee 4y agoTo me it seems as a rather obvious playful creation that anyone can conjure, and I’d rather attribute it to convergent evolution. Much like calculus by Newton and Leibniz.
- 9dev 4y agoTIL where the name of that Red Hot Chili Peppers album came from.