diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 04922b6..2c7e3c3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1080,9 +1080,9 @@ the Development section below, and who ships a register the four above then draw
 - **`hold` names what a render keeps, `draw` what it draws.** Goal 2 wants a name to
   reach one unit: `hold`, `holdSet` and `renderScope` are what a render holds while it
   renders, and `draw`, `drawGroup` and `drawfence.go`'s units are the draws and the
-  load fence over them. So `holdset.go` is fenced by `drawfence.go`, which does not
-  pair by name as `hold.go` and `holdfence.go` do: that fence is over reference draws,
-  wherever a render keeps them. Valid while the load fences sit in files of their own.
+  load fence over them, so `holdfence.go` fences the hold an expansion keeps and
+  `drawfence.go` the reference draws `holdset.go` keeps. Valid while the load fences
+  sit in files of their own.
 - **A function may not spell a method; two types may.** A call writes a method with
   its receiver and a function bare, so one name on both greps as one unit, which is
   the reaching cost goal 2 counts, while the receiver before a shared method name
diff --git a/holdset.go b/holdset.go
index 69d82ca..694107f 100644
--- a/holdset.go
+++ b/holdset.go
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ func newHoldSet(s *session) holdSet {
 	return holdSet{unnamed: hold{variant: map[string]node{}, value: map[string]draw{}, s: s}}
 }
 
-// renderOnce renders n as one render, over draws of its own.
+// renderOnce renders n as one render, over a hold set of its own.
 func renderOnce(s *session, n node) string {
 	set := holdSet{unnamed: hold{s: s}}
 	return render(s, n, renderScope{set: &set})
diff --git a/naming_test.go b/naming_test.go
index 075a58e..80d609a 100644
--- a/naming_test.go
+++ b/naming_test.go
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 )
 
-// TestNoFunctionSpellsAMethod holds a call to one unit, over the tests as well,
-// since a test file is this package too.
 func TestNoFunctionSpellsAMethod(t *testing.T) {
 	funcs, methods := declaredCalls(namespaceFiles(t))
 	names := make([]string, 0, len(funcs))
@@ -19,7 +17,8 @@ func TestNoFunctionSpellsAMethod(t *testing.T) {
 	sort.Strings(names)
 	for _, name := range names {
 		if recv := methods[name]; len(recv) > 0 {
-			t.Errorf("func %s and %s are two units under one name; name them apart", name, strings.Join(recv, " and "))
+			sort.Strings(recv)
+			t.Errorf("func %s is spelled by %s too; name them apart", name, strings.Join(recv, " and "))
 		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/node.go b/node.go
index c9bb65c..afac977 100644
--- a/node.go
+++ b/node.go
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ type template struct {
 	// held is every name drawn once per expansion: the bound levels above, plus the
 	// siblings a {calc()} reads. nil when the format holds nothing (see expand).
 	held      map[string]bool
-	heldLocal bool // some held name is kept by the expansion itself, so expand makes its draws
+	heldLocal bool // some held name is kept by the expansion itself, so expand makes its hold
 
 	// Filled by `linkTemplateRefs` and `keyDrawGroup`, from the assembled tree:
 	refs         map[string]refBinding // each reference the format reads -> what it is bound to
diff --git a/perf_test.go b/perf_test.go
index 771f46f..5864b55 100644
--- a/perf_test.go
+++ b/perf_test.go
@@ -69,12 +69,12 @@ func TestNoReferenceAllocRegression(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Fatalf("New(%s): %v", s.name, err)
 		}
 		if allocs := testing.AllocsPerRun(10000, func() { f.Fake("x") }); allocs > s.base*1.10 {
-			t.Errorf("%s: %.1f allocs/op regressed past %.1f (baseline %.1f + 10%%); a draw set reaching the heap is the usual cause", s.name, allocs, s.base*1.10, s.base)
+			t.Errorf("%s: %.1f allocs/op regressed past %.1f (baseline %.1f + 10%%); a hold set reaching the heap is the usual cause", s.name, allocs, s.base*1.10, s.base)
 		}
 	}
 }
 
-// A table read pins a row in the render's draws and reads its cells in place.
+// A table read pins a row in the render's hold and reads its cells in place.
 func TestNoTableAllocRegression(t *testing.T) {
 	f, err := New(WithoutShippedData(), WithDataFS(fstest.MapFS{
 		"region.json": {Data: []byte(`{"format":"{name}","rows":"region.tsv","key":"code","weight":"population"}`)},
diff --git a/record.go b/record.go
index 1f61bf1..50fc7dd 100644
--- a/record.go
+++ b/record.go
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ func recordOf(n node) (*template, []Column, error) {
 }
 
 // renderRecord draws each column once, in the name order recordOf fixed, as one render
-// over sc's draws; a table's columns read the row pinned there.
+// over sc's hold; a table's columns read the row pinned there.
 func renderRecord(s *session, t *template, columns []Column, sc renderScope) *Record {
 	sc = sc.in(t)
 	if t.table != nil {
diff --git a/render.go b/render.go
index 649b2c5..2df2cc5 100644
--- a/render.go
+++ b/render.go
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ func descend(s *session, root node, segments []string, sc renderScope) (node, er
 
 // render evaluates a compiled node to a string. compile validates every node up
 // front, so rendering a compiled tree cannot fail. sc holds the reference draws the
-// render shares; each repeat iteration renders over draws of its own.
+// render shares; each repeat iteration renders over a hold set of its own.
 func render(s *session, n node, sc renderScope) string {
 	switch n := n.(type) {
 	case *choice:
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ func expand(s *session, t *template, sc renderScope) string {
 	b.Grow(t.grow)
 	// One draw per held name, for this expansion only: a nested template and each
 	// repeat iteration get their own, since each is its own expansion. A reference
-	// path reads the render's draws in sc instead.
+	// path reads the render's hold in sc instead.
 	var held *hold
 	if t.heldLocal {
 		held = &hold{
diff --git a/table.go b/table.go
index 1227bcf..e16afc9 100644
--- a/table.go
+++ b/table.go
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ func (t *table) indexed() *tableIndex {
 }
 
 // draw picks a row over the whole table. The session is concrete rather than the rng
-// interface so that a walk holding the draws allocates nothing.
+// interface so that a hold carrying it allocates nothing.
 func (t *table) draw(s *session) int {
 	if t.cum == nil {
 		return s.IntN(t.rows())
diff --git a/template.go b/template.go
index 31f704d..f7862dc 100644
--- a/template.go
+++ b/template.go
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ type formatOps struct {
 	bound     map[string]string
 	held      map[string]bool
 	holder    map[string]string
-	heldLocal bool // some held name is kept by the expansion itself rather than the render's draws
+	heldLocal bool // some held name is kept by the expansion itself rather than the render's hold
 }
 
 func (c *formatOps) holdName(a arm, label string) {
diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md
index a31fd4d..adbefb5 100644
--- a/todo.md
+++ b/todo.md
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ scoring run names too little to steer one. A fresh run replaces the items below.
 Scores, newest last: 5.9 on 2026-09-20 (Navigation 7.0, Locality 5.2, Shape 5.9,
 Self-sufficiency 5.7), eight of nine seats capped by Locality or Self-sufficiency, all
 nine naming `hold.go`, `draw.go` — now `holdset.go` and `drawfence.go` — and
-`family.go` first for reading cost: 1,138 lines in which each file carries both a
-load-time fence and render-time machinery, so no file name says whether a unit runs at
+`family.go` first for reading cost: 1,138 lines in which each file carried both a
+load-time fence and render-time machinery, so no file name said whether a unit ran at
 `New` or at `Fake`.
 
 This round, in order: