When trans people are forced to correct others after being mispronouned, they are reminding those they correct that their assumptions regarding both the individual in question and the larger system of gender are wrong.

Then two or three boys laughed and sneered, and a big brutal fellow, who was standing in the middle of the room, picked up a slipper, and shied it at the kneeling boy, calling him a snivelling young shaver.

The feeling of nostalgia for jewelrylike watches extends beyond the practical.

A 200-ton rockfall recently blocked the Machynlleth sidings, trapping several locomotives; a rock-slip on the approach embankment to Talerddig required expensive revetting last year; and on the coastal section to Barmouth an 80 foot-high stone revetment was completed some time ago at Friog; ….