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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: What hath English wrought? #131792 08/19/2004 6:15 PM Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 180 Atlanta, GA birdfeed member birdfeed member Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 180 Atlanta, GA Looks as if metathesis played a role. Some letters swapped places at some point, back when verbs wanted to sound remarkably different in the past tense. Just on a whim I once looked up "freight" to see whether "fraught" was its past participle and it looks as if maybe it was, once upon a time. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted What hath English wrought? CarlAdler 08/19/2004 5:44 PM Re: What hath English wrought? birdfeed 08/19/2004 6:15 PM Re: What hath English wrought? Faldage 08/20/2004 12:04 AM Re: What hath English wrought? jheem 08/20/2004 9:56 AM Re: What hath English wrought? Faldage 08/20/2004 9:57 PM Re: What hath English wrought? wordminstrel 08/20/2004 10:20 PM Re: wrinkling rank jheem 08/20/2004 10:33 PM Re: wrinkling rank Alex Williams 08/21/2004 1:31 AM Re: What hath English wrought? Jackie 08/25/2004 2:54 PM Re: What hath English wrought? jheem 08/25/2004 2:58 PM Re: What hath English wrought? Jackie 08/25/2004 3:07 PM Re: What hath English wrought? wordminstrel 08/20/2004 8:32 PM Re: What hath English wrought? of troy 08/20/2004 8:58 PM Re: What hath English wrought? wordminstrel 08/20/2004 9:34 PM Re: What hath English wrought? Father Steve 08/20/2004 12:38 AM Re: What hath English wrought? jheem 08/20/2004 2:11 AM The smartest person in the world Father Steve 08/20/2004 3:42 AM Re: What hath English wrought? Jenet 08/26/2004 6:46 PM Re: What hath English wrought? Jackie 08/27/2004 2:20 AM Re: What hath English wrought? Faldage 08/27/2004 9:32 AM Re: What hath English wrought? jheem 08/27/2004 11:14 AM Re: What hath English wrought? of troy 08/27/2004 11:34 AM Re: What hath English wrought? jheem 08/27/2004 12:13 PM wrought iron TEd Remington 08/27/2004 12:20 PM Re: fraught enron jheem 08/27/2004 12:53 PM Re: fraught enron Jackie 09/01/2004 12:47 PM even if it's wrong! wofahulicodoc 09/02/2004 1:59 AM Re: even if it's wrong! jheem 09/02/2004 12:11 PM mistake Owlbow 09/02/2004 12:24 PM mistake #2 Owlbow 09/02/2004 12:24 PM Re: fraught enron grapho 09/05/2004 1:18 PM Re: What hath English wrought? jheem 08/27/2004 11:08 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,916 Posts230,378 Members9,211 Most Online7,006 Mar 7th, 2026 Newest Members Boo boo kitty fu, peterreineck, Peripatetic Toad, JerryC, blvd 9,211 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 36 A C Bowden 17 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,204 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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