Wreck havoc

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Thu Sep 15 19:40:54 UTC 2005


On Sep 15, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Damien Hall wrote:

> ... It doesn't look like ADS-L has commented on this before.  The
> ghits stats are
>
> WREAK HAVOC     3,733,000 (including WREAKING / -ED / -S HAVOC)
> WRECK HAVOC     273,300   (including WRECKING / -ED / -S HAVOC)
>
> So not a negligible number of hits for WRECK...

entered in the eggcorn database back in february:
   http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/164/wreck/

and we also have, gasp, "reek havoc":
   http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/163/reek/

chris waigl was on the job!

arnold



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