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Subject: Re: [OM] All wrought up (was) IMG: Snow Again
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:35:30 +1300
I beg to differ.

No, dammit, I'm not going to beg in this matter. How about assert !

Andrew wrote  ( nothing to do with wrought)
> > 
> > You sure - got to break it to be certain! :-)
> > And yes, 'wrought is the the past tense of to wreak.

Wrong !  It's the past tense of  " to work",  I always thought.

Confirmed by my 1949 "Little Oxford Concise Dictionary"  :-)
( So I must be correct ! )

And yes it's as brittle as hell, especially when cast as fine filigree. But it 
rusts  
only slowly.

Brian Swale. 
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