Do you have a lot of pens?

You have three pens.

I have ten pens.

Sami borrowed Layla's pencils.

Do you have any pencils?

In 2008, the crew shifted to using Wacom Cintiqs for the drawings instead of pencils.

The Mahatma s image now features in advertising campaigns for everything from Apple computers to Mont Blanc pens.

A modern day Friedman might want to ask how China has come to dominate the pencil industry, as it has so many others.

Today, most of the world s pencils are produced in China an economy that is a peculiar mix of private entrepreneurship and state direction.

The most common quills were taken from the wings of geese or ravens, although the feathers of swans and peacocks were sometimes favored for prestige.

I was an introverted child, to the point of communicating with colored crayons and apologizing to objects when I bumped into them, so my mother thought it might do me good to write down my day to day experiences and emotions.

Quill pens were standard in Europe and the United States up through the 18th and 19th centuries, and are still used in various contexts, such as calligraphy and formal settings such as major bank transactions.

I m glad you ve asked this question! Actually, from the beginning I believed that someone had to do that but what exactly? He or she ought to write about society, and to create from this virgin territory which has not been touched by the pens of many writers, a dynamic space capable of providing material for many writers.

This sector continues to suffer the impact reported in the last two reports that Cuba sent to the Secretary General, in particular relating to the supply of pencils, notebooks, paper and other learning materials and equipment needed for general use in the educational process, which amounted to only 60 per cent of what the country purchased in 1989.