MDMD (1)--Names---Wicca
Sojourner
sojourner at vt.edu
Mon Jun 9 15:27:04 CDT 1997
At 09:02 PM 6/9/97 +0100, Eric Alan Weinstein wrote:
>
>Jeremy Cranswick of Watkins Books, Cecil Ct., assures me that
>the most common spelling of the religion in modern English
>would be "Wicca," and obviously 18th centuary English might
>throw out a few vareints thereon.
>Eric Alan Weinstein
>Centre For English Studies
>University Of London
>E.A.Weinstein at qmw.ac.uk
>
>
>
I'm sure that is the modern way to spell it. Are you sure that TRP is
looking for SUPER SECRET Alien Autopsy style meanings in his characters names?
Or maybe its just the old-fashioned honest approach -- Wicks Cherrycoke is
nothing but what he is assembled of. A wick, and a cherry coke. Old
fashioned goodness.
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