Sunday, March 16, 2008...12:41 pm
Subbing tip #1: wrack vs rack
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A “wrack” is a very old-fashioned shipwreck.
A “rack” is an old-fashioned torture device.
If you are “racked with pain” you are in pain as if you were being tortured on a rack.
Remember – no “w”!
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