Re: [Amc-list] Happy Birthday Gremlin....

[Kelly Hardie <ramblinguy.kelly@xxxxxxxxx>]

Funny, we still wreak havoc, but we don't wreak iron anymore. So where 
does all that wrought iron come from?

Kelly

Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> " 
> " 
> " The littlest car comes to the rescue, Go Gremlin! A few weeks later it would 
> " be Go Gremlin wrecking havoc at NHRA events all across the country with 
> " scenes like this:
>
> here i have to jump in and be an english nanny.
>
> not 'wreck', -wreak- -- the present tense of -wrought-, as in wrought
> iron or samuel morse's immortal 'what hath god wrought'.  nobody uses
> wreak much anymore, but it's a dialectic [old english?] variant of
> 'work'.
>
> happy birthday, gremmie!
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