Harry's shortest stay at Privet Drive
Geoff Bannister
gbannister10 at aol.com
Sat Mar 20 22:06:17 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 93532
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Laura Ingalls Huntley
<lhuntley at f...> wrote:
Laura:
> P. S. What *is* the plural of 'magic', anyway? As it's 'magicked'
and
> 'magicking' when we're talking about the verb forms, I've always
> assumed that 'magicks' is right (okay, I know that's not the
strongest
> argument). However, Merriam-Webster.com was silent on the subject,
and
> my spell-checker said *both* 'magics' and 'magicks' were wrong.
> *puzzled*
Geoff:
I would agree with Tip and Carol. There are many words associated
with branches of learning to which you would not normally expect a
plural.....
Maths, English, Botany, Chemistry, French just to strat the list.....
Magick, of course is a very old form of the noun.
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