Re[2]: [tied] Occam's razor

AAt 9:15:57 AM on Friday, March 28, 2003, george knysh
wrote:

> Also, for what it's worth, OCKHAM's (ca. 1288-1348) name
> is no longer spelt OCCAM, not even by the French, except
> where the serious literature used pre-dates WWII.
> Interestingly, the preferred mediaeval English spelling
> was HOKAM ( and then the h was dropped).*******

That's from Ockham in Surrey, right? <Hocham> 1170, <Ocham>
1291. I'd have guessed that in his lifetime spellings with
inorganic <H> would have been in a minority, unless for some
reason this feature came to be specifically associated with
him.

Brian