Sunday, April 26, 2015

playwrite/playwright: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Sunday, April 26, 2015

playwrite/playwright
It might seem as if a person who writes plays should be called a “playwrite” but in fact a playwright is a person who has wrought words into a dramatic form, just as a wheelwright has wrought wheels out of wood and iron. All the other words ending in “-wright” are archaic, or we’d be constantly reminded of the correct pattern.
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Happy birthday, William Shakespeare (1816).

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