The word "fright" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a noun and a verb. Example sentence: The child screamed in fright when he saw the circus clown.
The fright began on Asian markets on Sunday when Standard Life shares fell by 4%, or £400m, while shares in the engineering firms Babcock International – which runs civilian operations at Faslane submarine base and Rosyth naval dockyard – dropped 4.2%, or £233m, and Glasgow-based Weir Group fell by 1.8%, or £100m.
The bond markets took fright, pushing up the risk premiums on Greek borrowing to exorbitant levels and triggering a spiral of panic and brinkmanship that engulfed Ireland and Portugal and exposed the flimsy foundations of the common currency.
And while Unfriended might not reach the giddy fright heights it aims for (there's a bit too much minimising and maximising windows to fully terrify), it's a smartly constructed set of tricks.
The fear (the theory went) hadn't been uniform across England: Labour success in the big cities tended to indicate that multicultural metropolitan populations hadn't felt more than a shiver, whereas people in market towns and the old industrial settlements had had the whole fright.
The new format has a gut-wrenching moment in tomorrow night's show, when a 16-year-old singer who astounded the judges in her first audition suffers an attack of stage fright when she has to perform before a packed stadium.
As for the haircut, I won't try to justify it, except to say that it gives Johnny Hun a fright.
But the longer a government runs a large deficit, the greater the risk that it hits an inflection point where the markets take fright, and the cost of funding rises sharply: in this respect the eurozone experience is relevant.
It was suffering from terrible stage fright that fortuitously settled her on the path of directing.
It got the fright of its life in 2008 but has roared back stronger than ever.
Wracked with insecurity about work and money, and suffering from chronic stage fright, he developed an "unhealthy relationship" with alcohol, a dependence he wasn't to kick until 1992.
But investors took fright after a slowdown in Asia, and Burberry shares were the biggest fallers in the FTSE 100, plunging more than 6% to 1697p.
