Am I the only person who the "magick" spelling bothers?

Adding a K to the word instantly makes it as stupid a thing as it actually is.

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EDIT: big a is right, i am not a happy person :(

I have had my rants on this topic, so I promise to keep it short this time. I think it's one of the most stupid things thought up. To me, magic is magic. . . The thought process is I'm going to type and write how I talk, and I don't say magicKKKK, I say magic. period. The mental picture on how these people talk to make sure each other knows they're talking about magicKKKKK instead of just magic is amusing if not mind blogging for me.

It's been explained to me by an irrate person who was mad that I called it childish (because at the end of the day it is childish). They said it's to tell the difference when one is talking about "magick" and stage magic. . . but serious when you say both words they sound the same to me as I point it out. So that was his main reason he said.

silly to me still.

We don't add a letter. Not as a new coining. It's just a restoring,

The K has a longer pedigree. It was also there in Physick

It's one of the simplifying changes attempted by Noah Webster that took on both sides of the Atlantic.

Center and color took only in the US, the UK keeping centre and colour.

Medecin was a failure everywhere.

Whether those re-adopting it think they are doing anything more than reverting to an old spelling, I cannot say.

"Magick" is the correct spelling. I personally think there are too many S's (I know the apostrophe is incorrect, I just don't know how else to write that) in the word "Mississippi", but if I spell it any other way I'm incorrect. As someone else pointed out, the k is the Greek kteis, meaning vagina. "The Point within the centre of the Circle", as Gardner said. Female sexuality is the core of all magick.

I guess you could spell it "magicv"?

The reason why the word "magick" is used, it is to identify rituals performed in paganism and/or witchcraft.

When we hear "magic" (without the K), it is to identify illusionists/magicians/tricks

It's only a way for us to differentiate, nothing more :)

Edit: To your answer, why use it? Because I don't wish to fall under the "magician" category. I perform for rituals, not to play tricks :) --(many times I'd just refer it to "magik" as per old english as well, but never "magic")

It doesn't bother me at all. I have friends who are occultists, and friends who are stage magicians. I use the "k" to differentiate between the two. In a couple of cases, the magicians actually practice magick, too. But it's nice to have a way of signaling the difference.

To be honest...there is so much annoying crap going on in the world....war, politics, economy.....I try not to focus on things like an additional letter added on to a word, otherwise sleep would be quiet hard to achieve.

What harm is a "k" amoungst friends????

Actually, there was a "k" at the end of magic in Middle English. The etymology is:

Middle English 'magik,' from Old French 'magique,' from Late Latin 'magica,' from Latin 'magicē,' from Greek 'magikē,' from feminine of 'magikos' meaning "of the Magi, magical," from 'magos' meaning "magician, magus."

I understand why it's done, but I also know what you mean...it seems a bit too close to that annoying kind of oh so precious "ye olde shoppe" silliness (which actually bothers me more).

Don't know how to break this to you, but "magick" is simply the correct spelling of the word, as it is used by Wiccans and other magicians. The "k", incidentally, is for the Greek word "kteis", or vulva. When you understand this, you understand most of it.

magician Aleister Crowley i think used that spelling for occult puposes ,yes i am right look up magick on wikipedia it will explain!!!!!!!

I'm like you. I think 'magick' just looks weird and ridiculous.