From owner-cvs-ports Sat Aug 26 11:23:40 1995 Return-Path: cvs-ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA25573 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 11:23:40 -0700 Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [144.206.136.6]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA25562 ; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 11:23:35 -0700 Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA14337 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Sat, 26 Aug 1995 22:20:41 +0400 Received: by sequent.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Sat, 26 Aug 95 22:20:41 +0400 Received: (from ache@localhost) by astral.msk.su (8.6.8/8.6.6) id WAA02752; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 22:18:48 +0400 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Nate Williams Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.FreeBSD.org, Satoshi Asami , cvs-ports@freefall.FreeBSD.org References: <29006.809438918@time.cdrom.com> <199508261638.KAA12606@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199508261638.KAA12606@rocky.sri.MT.net>; from Nate Williams at Sat, 26 Aug 1995 10:38:21 -0600 Message-Id: Organization: Olahm Ha-Yetzirah Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 22:18:48 +0400 (MSD) X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.40 FreeBSD] From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) X-Class: Fast Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/utils/astrolog Makefile Lines: 25 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1196 Sender: cvs-ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199508261638.KAA12606@rocky.sri.MT.net> Nate Williams writes: >least in quite a few countries which we don't really need. I prefer >'misc' myself. "Magik/Magic" might even be a good place. Prefered spelling is 'magick', here some background info: "Magick" was a common spelling of the word in the Elizabethan period. It appears spelled with a K in John Dee's diaries which date from the 1580's. I suspect that this in particular held an attraction for Crowley, as he believed himself to be the reincarnation of Edward Kelly. In English print, the -ick ending began to change to -ic about 1700; by about 1730 -ic was much more frequent than -ick; by 1800 -ick was effectively extinct in English print. Johnson's 1755 Dictionary views -ick as a lost but noble cause. Americans were about 40 years behind the trend: -ick can still be found in American print until about 1840. -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - FidoNet: 2:5020/230.3 : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849