For some reason i can never remember if the proper pronunciation of "wreak" is as in 'wreck' or 'reek', so i finally took the time to look it up today and was surprised to find this usage NB from Atomica:

"USAGE NOTE: 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."


i *know* i've seen 'wrought' used erroneously to indicate the past tense of wreak before, and would've thought it correct myself, as an alternative to 'wreaked'.

Atomica shed light, for me, on the entymology of wrought iron (which is, much to my amusement, almost *always* listed as "rot iron" in the local for-sale ads); wrought iron is simply iron that has been *worked* into decorative patterns.

My question, then, is this: What other usage can be made of the word "wrought"? surely it would not be syntactically correct to say "I wrought three hours on that project", right?