I have friends who refer to their children’s unmarried partners as their “daughters-in-love” or “sons-in-love” (Letters, 6 September). It’s affectionate and not as twee as it sounds.
Dr Brigid Purcell
Norwich
• The quandary is easily solved here in Scotland by the widely used and understood phrase “bidie-in”.
Rosemary Goodman
St Andrews, Fife
• As I am not married to the man who shares my home and life, I have always referred to myself as a “daughter-out-law”.
Sarah Williamson
Sheffield
• Trussites? Trussians? Rafael Behr wonders what we should call supporters of the new prime minister (Liz Truss’s faith in the power of markets will be tested to destruction by a winter of strife, 7 September). After her appointment of such a loyalist cabinet, I think we should go for Trussties.
Canon Robert Titley
London
• Regarding the joy of letters (6 September), for more than 10 years I have been writing to my pen friend on death row in South Carolina, US. We both get a great deal from it. Many prisoners would like to correspond but have no one. Organisations such as Life Lines will carefully match anyone interested.
Phil Madden
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
• Will someone tell weather forecasters to stop describing a rise in temperature as “improving” and rain being “a risk”, when my lawn is yellow and we have a hosepipe ban?
Jennifer Macwhinnie
London
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