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WARNING: Word-related thread!  Today's Peanuts comic strip uses the word "shute", which I'd never heard of, in a context where I'd have expected "chute". Shute does not appear in bartleby.com, but does appear in dictionary.com. Is this a british usage? Is it in common use generally, or common use in particular phrases? http://www.snoopy.com/comics/peanuts/archive/peanuts-20020206.html
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Dear Keiva: Shute is such a common name that a got a million sites about Nevil Shute, who wrote some very good stories.
There was also a New Hampshire judge, Henry A. Shute, who about a hundred years ago wrote some very funny books about his childhood. The Real Diary of a Real Boy was something our whole family enjoyed.
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Nevil Shute, who wrote some very good stories.
Funny, I was just thinkin' about Nevil Shute and his classic tome On The Beach today.
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Today's Peanuts comic strip
um . . which today are you talking about? Peanuts was cancelled over a year ago.
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Funny, I was just thinkin' about Nevil Shute and his classic tome On The Beach today
And the classic "A Town Like Alice" (just to drag the Australian theme into yet another thread  ).
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um . . which today are you talking about? Peanuts was cancelled over a year ago.
Jazzo, you're partly right. It runs in re-runs.
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Shute is a variant of chute. Never heard of a parashute but.
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> just to drag the Australian theme into yet another thread..
Go girl!!
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um . . which today are you talking about? Peanuts was cancelled over a year ago.Right and wrong, JazzO. Sparky Schultz has gone to the great inkwell in the sky but the entire series is being repeated starting from some point in the '70s. His only stipulation was that no other artist take up the mantle. Some newspapers no longer carry it but it is still up and running on several large rags worldwide. There's that word 'rag' again. How often it does pop up these days 
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Glad to find you & me agreeing, Rubrick!
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