Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Grammar Girl: SHUDDER vs SHUTTER

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Lucy decided to help Grammar Girl out by contributing what she feels is a horrific homophone problem in fan fiction. She was so adamant about this issue that she scrolled through her tweet history to find her initial tweets about it and retweeted it to moi.

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Per Lucy (and Grammar Girl concurs):

It's 'shudder' NOT 'shutter'. Shutters are found on cameras & windows. Shuddering is what I'm doing at your words.

Shutters are like this:



and like this:



Comedy shutters:



Appropriate reason to shudder:



Homer Simpson appropriately displaying the act of 'shuddering':

4 comments:

  1. ha ha lolz funny pics but i got ur point through. LOTS OF LUV GRAMMAR GIRL.

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  3. this is great. have you done scarred vs scared? i have trouble with that one...

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  4. SHUDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDER! woo! keep 'em coming GG! *grins*

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