Mea Culpa: Dancing to wrap music and making hay in the day

We confused several words that sound the same but are spelt differently last week. In a report on the rugby we said that Eddie Jones, England’s head coach, was “risking a wrap on the knuckles”. Thanks to Iain Boyd for pointing out this unusual way of eating flatbread. That has been changed to “rap”.

In a letter to the editor, a reader praised supermarkets for “stepping into the breech”, doing the government’s job by looking after the less fortunate. As Mick O’Hare pointed out, this should have been “breach”.

A breech is a buttock, or the hind part of something, and was originally a plural of broc in Old English, but became singular, giving rise to breeches, a double plural meaning a garment covering buttocks and thighs.