The word 'souvenir' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use the word 'souvenir' when you are referring to a memento or other item that you bought or were given in order to remember a certain event or place. Example sentence: I bought a snow globe as a souvenir from my trip to Switzerland.
Thus we spray-painted terrible puns onto bed sheets (oh look, another "Declaration of Waugh") and hoisted them in the air as banners, we slapped on our terry toweling hats, we bought the souvenir tour guides and Channel Nine propaganda pamphlets - still walking away with change from a $10 note – and marvelled in the peerless humour of calling Richard Hadlee a wanker all day.
An aide at his side held his cigarette during doorstep visits and carried "souvenir" Ukip placards that Farage autographed for residents to display in their windows.
Late into the last century, for example, a favourite souvenir of Aberdeen was a postcard with two views of the city's main thoroughfare, Union Street, taken from the same angle.
Soon afterwards, Piqué could be seen taking a pair of scissors to the net and leaving with it as his personal souvenir.
I had been une femme très, très contente avec un dull mari whose nom I can't souvenir et François had been devoted to Ségolène.
According to the souvenir programme, the club's director of football, Tom Mitchell, "took a call" a little over a month ago about the possibility of a visit from Real Madrid.
No ticket booth or souvenir stalls.
I have always wanted to go there purely for the sake of bringing back a souvenir proudly bearing the name.Dianna Wuagneux Castleton, Vermont * Letter appears online only.
It stages "events" to encourage people to visit and, as Mr Radice puts it, to buy a souvenir.
But KFC and McDonald's outlets escaped largely unscathed, apart from a brief downturn in custom.In September last year, Starbucks touched a nationalist nerve when it opened a small outlet in a souvenir shop in Beijing's Forbidden City, a symbol of Chinese pride.
That awareness should not be confused with endorsement of government policies, the mayor says: if asked why troops were in Afghanistan, many "would find it hard to answer".On the Esplanade, Hazel Coleman, a sixth-form student with a part-time job at a souvenir shop, observed the minute's silence for Marine Wright.
