wreak/wreck

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 8/29/06, Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at ohio.edu> wrote:
>
> I've heard "wreck havoc" twice on the news in the last couple of days (with
> ref. to hurricanes).  Is this common?

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/164/wreck/

Perhaps this is an especially common substitution in the context of
hurricanes and other natural disasters that wreck things.


--Ben Zimmer

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