Pen

A pen is a writing instrument which applies ink to some surface. Pens may be categorized by the kind of tip on them. The main modern types are ballpoint pens, fountain pens and felt-tipped pens.

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Originally the word meant quill, and is derived from penna, which is Latin for feather. This is because early pens were made from goose feathers by carving the feather with a penknife. Pen is also used as a verbal expression of "to create" or "to write"; for example, "Today, I think I'll pen the Great Canadian Novel." Pens may also be known, although not very commonly, as frindles. This word was invented by the author Andrew Clements in his novel Frindle, the premise of which is that a schoolboy decides to call pens "frindles" and the usage becomes common throughout America.

Writing: Writing may refer to two activities: the inscribing of characters on a medium, with the intention of forming words and other constructs that represent language or record information, and the creation of material to be conveyed through written language. (There are some exceptions; for example, the us...

Ink: :Ink (or Inkwell) is also a handwriting recognition technology built into Apple Computer's Mac OS X since Mac OS X v10.2. Ink can refer to a TV series starring Ted Danson....

Ballpoint pen: A ballpoint pen, in many countries also eponymously called a biro, is a writing instrument, more specifically a pen, similar to a pencil in size and shape....

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