'pang' is a real word and can be used in written English.
It can be used as a verb or a noun. Verb: I felt a sudden pang of homesickness. Noun: I had a pang of guilt for not calling my parents.
And yet there's something gloomily philistine about it, something that leaves you with a surprising pang for the days when Tory patricians were allowed to be decent chaps without quite such demands on their electoral palatability.
But doesn't Dickens feel a pang of guilt each time he sees the running of the paramedics towards one of his customers?
And however infinitesimal their struggles must retroactively have felt in the light of her story, there will have been that acute pang of fellow feeling, of sympathy in its purest sense.
She's given up the journalism now, although she says she still occasionally feels a pang of editorial anger when she reads reviews of the band: "I want to send it back and tell them to restructure".
So am I being a hypocrite running people over in my virtual car without a pang of remorse?
Nobody had told Karan's grandmother about his resits, and for the first time he felt a pang of guilt.
As I sat reading in bed, I heard the solitary pop of an early firework and had a momentary pang for familiar faces and a glass of fizz.
The doctor wrote: "I sense that you have a strong sense of justice, [but] whatever your convictions, if you truly believe that those who oppose abortion are all ideologues driven by perverse desires to inflict suffering on women, then you, in my judgment, are not fair-minded".Mr Obama says he "felt a pang of shame".
Even the occasional odd pang of lust (you know who you are).Yes, everybody seems to feel strongly about Hillary Clinton.
First-time users often report an exhilarating revelatory pang as they realise what the software can do.
IT'S hard not to feel a pang of sympathy for Tony Blair.
