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It’s always come across as nothing more than a “ye olde” spelling to me.

I think he came up with the spelling.

It's the old spelling, e.g. Johnson's dictionary (1755) only has the -ck spelling and quotes Shakespeare and Milton spelling it so.

https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=m...

TIL, that's good to know. Thanks.

To me it seems as a rather obvious playful creation that anyone can conjure, and I’d rather attribute it to convergent evolution. Much like calculus by Newton and Leibniz.

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