How to keep the music playing… | Brief letters

Synonymity | Self-immolation | The Covid-19 war | Origami | Going to the pub | Music venues | Defining a gentlemanAndy Bull (Cricket’s criminal streak and the curious case of the Lord’s forger, Sport, 18 March) says “cricket is synonymic with a sense of fair play”. That’s a new word to me, so I looked it up. Apparently synonymic is a synonym of synonymous. Thanks, Andy, for helping to pass the time during self-isolation.
Mike Jones
Exeter• Living alone and abou