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The modern word wreck has different meanings in American and British English.

It comes directly from Middle English wrak, meaning anything that is in ruins, such as a building. This word probably has nautical earlier origins: Old Norse wrek (a shipwreck or flotsam), Icelandic rek.

Modern British English continues the original meanings: a shipwreck or anything in ruins. American English uses it for car or train crashes.

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