Note 170 — Chapter III · THE PHILOSOPHIC GROUP
Reading edition
Boswell’s Life of Johnson, edited by G. B. Hill ... Oxford, 1887, Vol. IV., p. 31. Cf. on “the Saxon k,” Thomas R. Lounsbury, Confessions of a Spelling Reformer, Atlantic Monthly, May, 1907 (Vol. XCIX.), p. 627: “The Saxon k was the lexicographer’s personal contribution to the original English alphabet.”