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TIL: "wrought" means about the same as "worked", but it has a more "tangible" sense to it, like doing some smithery/forgery.
by GolDDranks 3y ago
TIL: "wrought" means about the same as "worked", but it has a more "tangible" sense to it, like doing some smithery/forgery.
- bluefirebrand 3y agoI've always thought of it as basically interchangeable with "created"
- spondylosaurus 3y agoOh wow, is that where we get the term "wrought iron"? (Versus "cast iron," which is literally cast...)
- jjtheblunt 3y agoI had years of germanic linguistics in undergrad and grad school, and i think this is an alternate ("archaic") past tense of work, so it's literally "worked", just like you said a blacksmith would do. i mention the germanic classes because i can't at the moment think of other examples where (outside arabic etc) there's a commutativity between a consonant and vowel (work & wrokt) but i'd swear i would think of some if not trying.
- euroderf 3y agoIsn't it a form of "wreak" ? Another odd one is "fraught".
- jjtheblunt 3y agoI think so.
- mitchbob 3y agoIt was in the first official Morse code transmission. The title of the Jane Street piece is a play on this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_hath_God_wrought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_hath_God_wrought
- kaycebasques 3y agoIt is also originally a quote from the King James Bible. I'm sure your Wikipedia page mentions that but it's just too interesting not to mention explicitly here as well :)
- asdfman123 3y agoThey're not interchangeable of course, though. This article's title is meant to be playfully dramatic.