The word 'chord' is both correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a combination of musical notes played or sung at the same time, as in "She strummed a few chords on her guitar." You can also use it to refer to any two or more lines or objects that intersect or connect, as in "The zip line was secured at two points by a chord passing through a hole in the rock wall."
"He kept saying 'al-Jazeera, al-Jazeera', and then he said: 'We have to arrest her,'" Marroushi said, in a story that strikes a chord with anyone reporting in Egypt.
But that song had the advantage of a substantially more homogeneous pop landscape, filled with vanilla tunes like Jason Mraz's I'm Yours and Miley Cyrus's The Climb, and it used the popular chord progression of the Black Eyed Peas' I Gotta Feeling as a foundation throughout.
Inc are definitely on the indie side of the equation, but here in one chord change (it's in the refrain) they summon up the ghosts of Vandross and O'Neal and all that emotional delicacy that is straight R&B's stock in trade.
So what does explain the slightly curious fact that a play about a group of northern state school sixth-form boys preparing for Oxbridge in the 1980s touches such a modern national chord?
The news that there have been more than half a million pre-payment energy meters forcibly installed into people's homes over the last six years struck a chord with me.
Such an agenda, hoped the SNP, would "strike a chord with people in the middle classes".
We're never supposed to be good pop music, we're supposed to be odd music that strikes a beautiful chord in some kind of way, but remaining sort of … not shit music exactly, but let's say … hard to market".
With our current sense that two decades of ugly, turbocharged capitalism has come to an end, Zola's portrait of a society that sheds its morality and humanity in the pursuit of profit would strike a massive chord.
"When you play a lot of notes, or you play a chord, the sensation is different.
It's not hard to see why both struck a chord: a tepid global economy, high unemployment, stagnant living standards and trickle up to those at the top have created an environment of sullen unease.
If golf was properly alive to vibrant, knowledgeable markets, this scenario would strike a chord.
