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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