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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread ron's usage notes: wreak #167311 04/04/07 03:20 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass Wreak is sometimes confused with wreck, perhaps because the wreaking of damage may leave a wreck: The storm wreaked (not wrecked) havoc along the coast. The past tense and past participle of wreak is wreaked, not wrought, which is an alternative past tense and past participle of work. [AHD4] -ron obvious Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: ron's usage notes tsuwm #167312 04/04/07 03:48 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA D dalehileman Pooh-Bah dalehileman Pooh-Bah D Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA The misuse is becoming very common indeed, enough to set the prescriptivist into conniptions dalehileman Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: ron's usage notes tsuwm #167313 04/04/07 04:35 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York ron waxes wroth. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: ron's usage notes AnnaStrophic #167316 04/04/07 07:07 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass (and I meant to add) wreak is pronounced reek! -ron o. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: ron's usage notes AnnaStrophic #167319 04/04/07 08:20 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC Originally Posted By: AnnaStrophic ron waxes wroth. Tell Roth to wax Ron for a while. With no apology to Groucho his own self. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: ron's usage notes TEd Remington #167321 04/04/07 08:45 PM Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand olly old hand olly old hand Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand Wax Ron, Wax Wroth. Wax Ron, Wax Wroth. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: ron's usage notes olly #167328 04/05/07 12:50 AM Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Z Zed Pooh-Bah Zed Pooh-Bah Z Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada LOL Olly Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: ron's usage notes olly #167330 04/05/07 01:39 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky But, but...what if Ron would prefer to be waned? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: ron's usage notes Jackie #167337 04/05/07 02:39 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Wreak is from the OE wrecan, which was a class 5 strong verb. This means that the 1st preterite (the standard past) was wræc. This suggests that the "proper" past tense in MnE should be 'wrack' if language weren't such a slippery thing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: ron's usage notes Faldage #167355 04/05/07 07:22 PM Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Z Zed Pooh-Bah Zed Pooh-Bah Z Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Aha! When you wreak havoc you bring things to wrack and ruin. I had wonderred what kink of rack. 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