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It’s always come across as nothing more than a “ye olde” spelling to me.
by mathieuh 4y ago
It’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.