Out of the Sunday paper comes a group of pages that details various useful bedroom things, available mail-order.
"Lightweight Summer Duvet" -"this 100% cotton duvet ticks all the right boxes" "it's filled with 100% hollowfibre, inside an easy-care polyester cotton cover"
Last time I looked, hollowfibre was 100% synthetic, likewise polyester. So which bit does the copywriter not understand - cotton, or 100%.
Spray to keep the moths away
Trust me on this one. The socking great moth pictured on the holey jumper is actually (probably) a Sloe Carpet, (rather a fuzzy photo) Aleucis Distinctata, and the carpet bit does not refer to eating habits, but wing pattern. Normal food is Blackthorn, not wool.
It is sad that I find myself so irritated by these sort of errors. I would have been the teacher that nobody loved, if I could have kept myself from blowing a gasket!
Maybe I just have this tragic need to know better!
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You must know that I am with you all the way on this. Likewise radio presenters who use the wrong words. Also, today, looking on Amazon to find 100% linen fabric, most of them were anything but. Linen-look cotton is not 100% linen, neither is stretch cotton/rayon!
I feel your frustration.
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