"creak" is a perfectly valid and commonly used word in written English.
It is usually associated with the sound produced by a door or floorboard when you open or walk over it. You can use it as a verb, noun, and adjective. Example: The creaking floorboard was heard throughout the house.
The enjoyably campy quips of protagonist Detective Sebastian Castellanos do little to distract from the ominous creak of a wrought iron gate that leads to a creaking mansion, shrouded in mist.
While the two economies are on differing paths, both expansions are beginning to creak with age.Economic forecasts produced by feeding numbers into complex models are notoriously bad at predicting turning points, because they tend to extrapolate the recent past.
But the nub of the matter, as he described it in a calmly lyrical passage of his book, "Caveat", was this:The [Reagan] White House was as mysterious as a ghost ship; you heard the creak of the rigging and the groan of the timbers and sometimes even glimpsed the crew on deck.
No wonder, perhaps, that today's "system" is already starting to creak as some Asian central banks start to worry about the value of their dollar reserves.
The proportion of those in trouble may double in the next five, it reckons.Unlike previous turns in the credit cycle, when sharp changes in external circumstances such as getting fired pushed people into arrears, now it seems that consumers are simply beginning to creak under the accumulated weight of their borrowing.
Slow growth, high unemployment and the burdens of rising public debt and falling competitiveness have renewed doubts about the sustainability of the European "social model", which is also starting to creak under the weight of an ageing population.
No surprise that it has begun to creak and buckle under the weight of Flash and all the other kludges needed to make it work in a modern multimedia world, where streaming video on the fly (rather than simply downloading it as a file for viewing later) has become the norm.
As budgets creak, they are losing their ability to provide a generously padded safety-net.
Their anonymity means we sometimes see personal slights in the merest creak of the seat as they stretch out, or in an inane conversation with their children.Compare this with the stranger in an adjacent seat.
This is where regulators can play a benign role, signalling concerns early and loudly when activities reach a certain scale (as has happened with ETFs and liquidity swaps) and setting standards for data and reporting before the infrastructure starts to creak (as happened with CDSs in 2005).Regulators are far from perfect.
