The word "pen" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a writing device, as in "The pen I used to write my essay was blue" or as a verb to refer to the action of writing, as in "I will pen a letter to my grandmother."
Joyce Carol Oates, who has herself provoked outrage with comments about race, class and gender, tweeted her qualified support for PEN although she signed the letter: "Important to support PEN even if one does not always agree with individual awards.
But even in the best case scenario, one of these policies would be driven to a remote forest location by some psychopathic coalition senior partner, then made to dig its own grave with a Lib Dem campaign pen.
He said he had changed his mind about remaining silent about his detention despite risking having his books and pen taken from him.
"It's one thing to let the lion prowl around your stock pen, it's another to open the gate and let him in," he said.
It is quite right that PEN should honour their sacrifice and condemn their murder," he said.
For much of its first hour, Mad Dogs US seems overly preoccupied with underlining the tension between its leads in thick marker pen, making it seem less like a high-octane thriller and more like a sulky stag night.
Lewis had to ask for it back because there were no others available, pulling on a top he had already autographed with a black marker pen.
In their detailed portrait of the prime minister at work and leisure, the authors also detail how Cameron maintains an even temper when infuriated by pen-clicking, phone checking and transport delays.
But pen-pointing pop manager Louis Walsh, whose X Factor relationship status is now "not exactly sacked but equally not invited back", has developed an extreme response to getting his Q4 Saturday and Sunday nights back.
'I've got the pen': Obama urges passage of legislation to extend middle income tax cuts, and promises to authorise it immediately The White House confirmed that Obama would be prepared to veto any legislation that maintained the Bush-era tax cuts on upper income earners.
On Monday, PEN America's president, Andrew Solomon, told the Guardian that "the award does not agree with the content of what they expressed".
