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Originally Posted by taxbuster
Thanked for NOT saying "racking".....all too common these days. Ugh.  |
I have bad news for you: The original and correct expression
is ‘nerve-racking’. It's meant to suggest the image of someone being tortured on the rack. ‘Nerve-wracking’ came along half a century later and is simply a homophone error, though a plausible one.