I was going to write the words ‘shock horror’ in my blog yesterday but hesitated as I didn’t know if it was hyphenated, separated by a comma or just two separate words. The Cambridge dictionary defines it as “an expression used when you are pretending to feel very shocked by a piece of news” and shows it written as ‘shock, horror’, for example:
“Shock, horror! The interest rates have risen again.”
Collins Dictionary, Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and Definition-of.net shows this adjective as hypenated, for example:
“The amount of shock-horror stories in the newspapers has risen in the last two years.”
How would you write shock-horror?
Until tomorrow…
Sandra
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I tend to write those particular words on my Face Book Status lol…..and I usually write it like this:
*shock horror gasp* lol
Xx
Posted by Vikki (The View Outside) | February 10, 2012, 7:32 amThank Vikki 🙂
Posted by Sandra Madeira | February 12, 2012, 4:03 pm