Wreak vs. Reek - Grammar Wars RECOVERED
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what about the word uncanny. like, the resemblance between maggie gylenhal and that pile of dog poo is uncanny. but nothing is ever just canny. whats up with that?
yeah, true. americans never use the word canny. unless perhaps we're referring to a woman with large breasts. ok, i made that up.
i dunno if this is a weird word but...
Fop \Fop\, n. [OE. foppe, fop, fool; cf. E. fob to cheat, G. foppen to make a fool of one, jeer, D. foppen.]
or one whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.
that's a word i've always gotten a kick out of.
You can just plain wreak. Like, stink. Right? haha
oh, that's reek. lol
You can unleash havoc. Not sure what you're talking about silly blondie. ;oP
true, but there's only a few usages. wreak is singular i think
it's a verb... can't be singular or plural
singular in its usage i mean. it's only ever used in combination with one other word
it definitely isn't *exclusively* singular. and it's pretty safe to say that "wrought havoc" or "wreak[ed] havoc" is a snatch from some literary prose i'm unaware of and people just used that way far, far more often than not. what do you think?
used = use it
are you talking about wreak or havoc?
lol, i'm talking about the words being exclusively bound.
in the end, i don't find either of them weird. i like 'em both. together and apart.
useless info: as a lame teen, in the early days of aol... for a long time my screen name was Amok Havoc.
amok is another cool word.
that's actually a perfect example, it's exclusively bound to the word "run"
omg they've run amok!
actually, yeah. as exclusive as it gets. good call.