Stop playing the generation X/Y/Z game

‘Please just refer to people in their 20s, 30s, 40s and so on, so we can all easily understand what you’re talking about.’ Photograph: Morsa Images/Getty Images

Please can everyone stop using all this silly gen X/Y/Z terminology (Public support for founding principles of NHS is falling across UK population, 20 October)? We’re in our 80s, so we know they’re all younger than us, but we are otherwise bemused, and if we look up the definitions we’ve forgotten them again by lunchtime. Please just refer to people in their 20s, 30s, 40s and so on, so we can all easily understand what you’re talking about.
John and Debbie Shepherd
Westleton, Suffolk

• Unlike Rachael Stirling, I did not swallow my parents’ ashes (Letters, 19 October). Instead, I absorbed them via the tattooist’s needle. The English rose for my mum and the Welsh daffodil for my dad that adorn my arm contain a small amount of their ashes, so I carry a part of them with me every day.
Julie Humphries
Ramsgate, Kent