The word 'ben' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used as a noun meaning "the inner part of a building or structure". It can also be used as a prefix to denote "good" or "well" in words like "benefit" or "benevolent". Here is an example sentence using 'ben': "The children played hide-and-seek in the old abandoned building, darting in and out of its dark and musty bens."
Email: [email protected] / Twitter: @meadea Ben Doherty reporter Ben is a former foreign correspondent for The Guardian, covering Southeast Asia, and for The Sydney Morning Herald, reporting across South Asia.
Think of the man from Del Monte, or the cows on Ben & Jerry's ice-cream.
Ben Parker, chief executive, Irin, London, UK, @benparker140 Ben co-founded the independent humanitarian news service, Irin.
Four days into his year-long stint in the Best Job in the World, Ben said: "My stay on the Gold Coast has been nothing short of spectacular; there really is something for everybody".
So Ben got his pomegranate and Alex got her business plan and then they were alone in the classroom with Men's Health magazine, and somehow began to discuss an article on sex tips.
As his readership grew to 20,000, Ben changed his mind.
David Cameron will doubtless depart from his political career next month with the bare minimum of a few lucrative company directorships and a kiss-and-tell book deal, so long as that police horse, Raisa and the lamb he cuddled at Easter can be persuaded to ditch their own competing publications, both currently being ghostwritten from audiotapes by the Financial Times's Ben Thompson.
Separately, the controller of drama commissioning Ben Stephenson forked out £1,272.94 for a "development meeting" with "key drama indies" on 17 August, which 19 guests attended at a cost to the licence-fee payer of just under £70 a head.
Neither will Ben Bernanke, the current chairman of the Fed, whose term ends in January and who earlier pleaded a dubious "scheduling conflict".
His production of Ben Jonson's The Devil Is an Ass applied the knife to yards of text, and his West Yorkshire Playhouse production of the children's classic Peter Pan was so dark and grim that one set of parents threatened to sue on the grounds that their child had been traumatised.
Along with Ben Shewry at Attica and Dan Hunter at Brae, Jock Zonfrillo of Orana in Adelaide is a leader of a new breed of chefs who have steered away from the country's Med and Thai obsessions to champion indigenous ingredients and flavours.
