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Thread #118662   Message #2567593
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
15-Feb-09 - 12:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: English grammar question
Subject: RE: BS: English grammar question
Right, Uncle Dave. Wreaked it is. The OED sez yer rite. The man from woop woop is wrong.

Wrought means made, fashioned, shaped, prepared, etc., e. g., finely wrought steel swords; or it also is used to mean overly excited over something, as in 'all wrought up'. (I like the slang 'all het up' better).

Slag, many scholars would like to know the Middle English pronunciations. Vas you dere, Charlie?
The use of the k' in pronunciation is extrapolation from modern Germanic and northern dialects, but much is guesswork.