Wrack or rack

[Rodleydave]

Do you wrack your brains or rack your brains...
opinions please

[Lord Beamish]

Both are in accepted usage. I'd go 'wrack', as that is how I'd spell the name of the medieval torture implement.

[Sidney1st]

Both are in accepted usage. I'd go 'wrack', as that is how I'd spell the name of the medieval torture implement.

I heard a rumour you've got one in the basement of Beamish Towers....

[HelloHiGoodbye]

Wrack.

[Tall Paul]

Rack, like the medieval torture implement.

[ClaretAndJew]

But does your Missus have a nice rack or a nice wrack?

[Lord Beamish]

I heard a rumour you've got one in the basement of Beamish Towers....

I don't have a basement, I have an Oubliette.

[Sidney1st]

I don't have a basement, I have an Oubliette.

That's a posh word, I had to google that one

[LeadBelly]

Do people still have wooden ceiling clothes drying racks in Burnley? We used to have one in the house I grew up in 1950s/60s in Healey Wood. Big one that raised & lowered by a rope/pulley. Located in the kitchen above where we usually lived & had a fire during the week ("front room" was only for weekends).
The gas cooker was in a corner nearby so my clothes always smelled of chips/fry-ups/stews in winter.

[Down_Rover]

One 'racks ones brains' but one goes to 'wrack and ruins'

rack emanates from the torture method and wrack is an ancient English word for misery, and later was used to describe a wrecked ship

[spadesclaret]

Rack

[ClaretTony]

I sometimes have to debate with myself on words such as this when I choose to use them in an article. My answer usually is to find another word.

[IndigoLake]

I have a degree in English. The correct spelling is wxraxck. The x's are silent.

[Chobulous]

We had one of those racks when I was a kid in Stoneyholme in the 60s. Bloody thing hit me on the head once when the pulley rope snapped.Blood everywhere. My mum took me up to the chemist on Brougham Street (Crabtree's I think). He said I was OK so that was it. No thought of A&E in those days.

[Quicknick]

Nice rack on the Cambodian bird selling buritos outside my Phnom Penh hotel, although I suspect they're implants.

[Quicknick]

I sometimes have to debate with myself on words such as this when I choose to use them in an article. My answer usually is to find another word.

Use google. It's wrack.

[South West Claret.]

Do people still have wooden ceiling clothes drying racks in Burnley? We used to have one in the house I grew up in 1950s/60s in Healey Wood. Big one that raised & lowered by a rope/pulley. Located in the kitchen above where we usually lived & had a fire during the week ("front room" was only for weekends).
The gas cooker was in a corner nearby so my clothes always smelled of chips/fry-ups/stews in winter.

Those drying racks are back, we have had 2 fitted in our house for over a year now and are a brilliant way of utilising space.

[duncandisorderly]

In the word 'Scent' is it the S or the C which is silent?

[jdrobbo]

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Darren Wrack scored a few goals against us. Decent player.

[Quicknick]

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Darren Wrack scored a few goals against us. Decent player.

Who for?

[Claretlad]

Looks more like Gary Kemp than Darren Wrack....

[Zom Zom]

ROckWrocK

[jdrobbo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 542015.stmWalsall

[Im_not_Robbie_Blake]

It's 'rack' according to this....
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/wrackin ... our-brain/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[South West Claret.]

Who for?

Walsall.

[timshorts]

It's "rac" in Welsh.

[BennyD]

You wrack your brains, but stare at a nice rack.

[dougcollins]

'Nice rack on the Cambodian bird selling buritos outside my Phnom Penh hotel, although I suspect they're implants.'


And I suspect she's a he.