XYZ

Although Havoc was made in Wales, US production company XYZ Films joined forces with Wales-based Severn Studios to make it.

Aram Tertzakian, one of XYZ Films' founders, has worked with Evans since Apostle, the 2018 horror featuring Michael Sheen which was filmed around Margam Park in Port Talbot.

“I'm so worried about” … XYZ thing.

Maybe this was simply owed to the demands of the book form—how many ways can you find to say “animal companion,” the supposed PC term for “pet”? Nigel Rees’ The Politically Correct Phrasebook from 1994 has a list of dozens of variations on the formula “xyz challenged,” and several of them—“hygienically challenged” and “orthographically challenged”—get their own entries.

No one refuses all language change; people who keep noting that they don’t know what xyz group “wants to be called now” somehow managed to learn what email was, or TikTok.