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To: aculeus

"Usage note ... The past tense and past participle of wreak is wreaked, not wrought, which is an alternative past tense and past participle of work." ...American Heritage Dictionary, Third Edition, 1992 p 2060

I stand very humbly corrected!

Did somebody change the language behind my back?

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20 posted on 02/20/2007 8:37:48 AM PST by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it!)
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To: Westbrook
Did somebody change the language behind my back?

Not really. "What hath God wrought" means what has He done (worked), not what has he wrecked.

(But you forced me to look in my dictionary.

21 posted on 02/20/2007 8:43:04 AM PST by aculeus
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