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Examples

  • If you are reading this letter, it means that the word frindle has been added to the dictionary.

    Frindle Andrew Clements 1996

  • Bud Lawrence was suddenly flooded with orders for anything with the word frindle on it, and he quickly got interested again.

    Frindle Andrew Clements 1996

  • The word frindle has existed for less than three weeks.

    Frindle Andrew Clements 1996

  • One girl bragged that she had written the word frindle forty-five times on her sheets today.

    Frindle Andrew Clements 1996

  • They were sure, because where you were supposed to write “I am writing this punishment with a pen,” everyone was writing the word frindle every fourth or fifth sentence.

    Frindle Andrew Clements 1996

  • Bud Lawrence was suddenly flooded with orders for anything with the word frindle on it, and he quickly got interested again.

    Frindle Andrew Clements 1996

  • One girl bragged that she had written the word frindle forty-five times on her sheets today.

    Frindle Andrew Clements 1996

  • Anyone who is heard using the word frindle instead of the word pen will stay after school and write this sentence one hundred times: I am writing this punishment with a pen.

    Frindle Andrew Clements 1996

  • If you are reading this letter, it means that the word frindle has been added to the dictionary.

    Frindle Andrew Clements 1996

  • Anyone who is heard using the word frindle instead of the word pen will stay after school and write this sentence one hundred times: I am writing this punishment with a pen.

    Frindle Andrew Clements 1996

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  • I'm a writer, a calligrapher and a frindley, so of course I think Andrew Clements was experiencing a moment of sheer genius when he invented this word for pen. I was rooting for Nicholas Allen* all the way. And yes, I've been given several copies of Frindle over the years — I guess it seems the logical thing to do (and it is a very satisfying yarn).

    *clearly a Wordie-in-the-making

    April 2, 2008

  • An excellent madeupical word. And Nick seems like a sort of proto-John. :-)

    April 2, 2008