Your correspondent is being rather harsh on Jim Perrin by criticising the use of the word meirwon rather than meirw (Letters, 17 January). Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, the University of Wales dictionary, gives both meirw and meirwon as acceptable words for “the dead” in the plural form. I see meirwon as more poetic, intended to imply that it refers to all the dead.
Ann Swindale
Skewen, Neath Port Talbot
• Jacinda Ardern resigns because she “no longer has enough in the tank” (Report, 19 January). How different from our own prime minister, who has been running on empty since he was appointed.
William Outhwaite
Bampton, Oxfordshire
