The word "pal" is correct and usable in written English.
Typically it is used as a term of endearment for a friend, and can be used in both formal and informal contexts. Example sentence: I'm always glad to catch up with my old pal, Joe.
It's not terrible: Bibb has a lot of fun as Rogers, cursing, burping and generally offending anyone she comes into contact with, and Dratch is a safe pair of hands as her beleaguered pal.
That's because their pin-up political editor Tom Bradbury has lent it to close pal Prince William so he can edit together all his gap-year videos and DVDs into one very posh home movie.
One person who may have found it easy to empathise with Khawaja's plight is the former Observer and Independent editor (and MediaGuardian guest editor) Roger Alton, who stepped down from his Times role as executive editor last week, seemingly hinting that he might follow his pal Simon Kelner into PR.
Unlikely though it seems, the singer Björk became, as Jane would put it, "a pal".
He is happy: his home in Glasgow with his wife of three years, giving it large on his trips to London with his pal Ray Winstone, his tight group of family and friends.
José Mourinho's one-time assistant has already been granted a favour by his pal with the re-loaning of defender Kenneth Omeruo, with talk of more – possibly Patrick Bamford – to come.
Your sincere but uninformed Facebook pal, who truly just wants to understand why it's not #AllLivesMatter or which pronoun to use for Caitlyn Jenner is the social media equivalent of the friend who wanders in halfway through the movie and says: Who's that?
People shout over one another and bargain animatedly - "y'got short airms and long pockets pal!" one stall holder complains to a stingy customer.
They mega offend Me what say you pal ???
Loved everything about her!" Irvine Welsh, the Trainspotting writer with whom Bird set up the production company Four Way Pictures, wrote that he had lost a "great pal" in Bird, adding that she "made amazing films".
