Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 22:18:48 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.FreeBSD.org, Satoshi Asami <asami@freefall.FreeBSD.org>, cvs-ports@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/utils/astrolog Makefile Message-ID: <Xb8MsFmubA@astral.msk.su> In-Reply-To: <199508261638.KAA12606@rocky.sri.MT.net>; from Nate Williams at Sat, 26 Aug 1995 10:38:21 -0600 References: <aB4lmFmGR5@astral.msk.su> <29006.809438918@time.cdrom.com> <199508261638.KAA12606@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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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.
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