Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.

The transitional zone can be regarded as the dialect boundary, where the two different dialects meet but there is no significant gap in mutual intelligibility due to the sesquilingualism of the native speakers.

And that doesn't invalidate or lessen the T*ness of the person. Some people believe that being afull time crossliver makes them somehow more than a person who dresses up on the odd Tuesday night.

That was the day when the Twin Towers fell.