Re: CHAT: "Nik"names :) (was Re: Middle Initials)

Eric Christopherson scripsit:

> [...] I thought about that too and figured it
> was just because it seems more "natural" to spell final /k/ with <ck>, at
> least after lax vowels. Of course there are lots of exceptions in English,
> but I think most of them are loanwords, such as the very popular -ic
Most of which once had -ick, as in musick, critick.  Removing this -k
was one of the reforms Dr. Johnson made in his dictionary, on the
grounds that k was a "Saxon" letter.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter