On Oct 24, 2005, at 9:54 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
According to a usage note in my dictionary (the excellent American
Heritage College Dictionary, 3d ed.), "The past tense and past
participle of wreak is wreaked, not wrought, which is an alternative
past tense and past participle of work."
By interesting coincidence, AH usage notes have come up in off-topic
discussion in a Usenet group I frequent.
A note of information for those who care: American Heritage has
adopted a policy of offering its content to numerous online publishers
for unattributed use. By contrast, competitor dictionaries (eg,
Merriam Webster, Random House, OED) have chosen to keep control of
their material and preserve their brand name.
The result is that any dictionary listing you find online which is not
clearly branded by the original publisher, almost certainly is American
Heritage -- eg, Yahoo, Bartleby, Dictionary.com, yourDictionary.com,
thefreedictionary.com, etc. The latter three you might think of as
Internet versions of reprint houses like Kalmus.
mdl
who agrees that AH is a fine dictionary (in spite of a few quirks) but
is a third-generation Merriam-Webster user
mdl
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