Oops…

In your May 2020 issue, I read the phrase “Nothing phases them” (‘A learning curve’, p62). Really? At first I thought it was going to be some clever homophone joke, or about phase shifting but no, that was the actual phrase. Just in case you have no idea what I’m on about, the word is ‘fazes’.

Jeremy Child

All right, all right, our hands are up, Jeremy! We’re currently working remotely from home, without the ability to check proofs as well as we could in the office. Of course the correct word should have been ‘fazes’. We can only blame our mistake on the lack of an office biscuit tin to fuel us when the blood sugar levels drop.

Alice Lipscombe-Southwell, managing editor

BBC Science Focus