When a taxi driver, convenience store clerk, pizza deliverer, etc., gets zotted, it is on the back page of the local newspaper and not in out of town newspapers at all.

I remember seeing old ladies with incredible bowlegs caused by rickets. Unkind folks would remark ‘They couldn't stop a pig in a passage’.

Thus if 𝔇 is an arbitrary decomposition of a space X into mutually disjoint subsets, then the corresponding quotient space is obtained by 'shrinking' or 'identifying' each member of 𝔇 to a single point. For this reason, the quotient spaces are sometimes called identification spaces and quotient maps as identification maps.

[H]e was one of those weak creatures full of a shifty cunning - who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves, void of pride, timorous, anæmic, hateful souls.