English as she is spoke.

An article I was reading the other day referred to a tornado which had "...wrought havoc across the state..." This is a common error. The past tense of the verb to wreak, meaning to inflict something (usually damage) on someone or something, is wreaked. Wrought is the old form of the past participle of the verb to work - now really only used in relation to metal which has been formed ("worked") by hammering, as in wrought iron. It sounds as if it should have some connection to wreak but it hasn't.