The history of some confused spellings: Wreak, wrack, rack, and (w)ruin

Kay, Christian; Wotherspoon, Irené

doi:10.1075/cilt.224.10kay

In:Sounds, Words, Texts and Change: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000
Edited by Teresa Fanego, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 224] 2002
► pp. 129–143

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Wreak, wrack, rack, and (w)ruin

The history of some confused spellings

Christian Kay

Irené Wotherspoon

Published online: 18 July 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.224.10kay

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2018. Words derived from Old Norse inSir Gawain and the Green Knight: An etymological survey. Transactions of the Philological Society 116:S2 ► pp. 1 ff.

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