"Besides," answered Goeth...

"Besides," answered Goethe, "we hear this substitution of g for k not purely amongst actors, but even amongst theologians. I one time experienced an incident of this sort. When I, any five years ago, stayed at Jena, and lodg at the Fir Tree a theological bookish man one morning presented himself. After he had convers with me extremely agreeably, he made, as he was just going, a suit of a most peculiar kind. He begged me to allow him to preach in my stead onward the next Sunday. I saw which way the wind blew and that the hopeful youth was undivided of those who confound g with k