IT’S been a good week for semantics, if nothing else, and it’s struck me how the way different people use familiar words has always had the potential for miscommunication, and a few have cropped up this week which are worth exploring.

Free will is not the kind of thing you expect to discuss on a racecourse, or a term you’d expect to use when discussing racecourse events, but that’s what happened last weekend after a minor fine was handed out for a similarly minor rules breach at Uttoxeter on Saturday.