Spoilers for Tuesday 6th August 2024 (Series 90, Heat 27)
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2024 2:43 pm
I wondered about magicks in round 12. According to Apterous you can have MAGICK or MAGICS but not magicks.
The reason why magicks is invalid is reasonable, but difficult to explain.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 2:43 pm I wondered about magicks in round 12. According to Apterous you can have MAGICK or MAGICS but not magicks.
The reason for this is because MAGICK is a noun. MAGICK, however, is an archaic spelling of MAGIC which is an uncountable mass noun, therefore magicks x is invalid; whereas MAGIC can be an uncountable mass noun or a verb, and the specified inflections of MAGIC as a verb are MAGICS, MAGICKED and MAGICKING.
Strange but true.