" I wince when I hear "wreaked" instead of "wrought" "

That's indeed sad, but far worse is the increasingly common usage of "wrecked havoc"....arrrggggg...(don't believe me? Google it.)




people see it spelled correctly, and 'see what they are familar with',...."wreck"... then pronounce it incorrectly and, if needing to write it, they write it like they have been saying it; and another word heads for oblivion.