When you wash a duvet cover, why does other washing end up in it? (continued)
Keith Macpherson, Clevedon, Somerset, UK
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In a previous response (31 October 2020), David Muir showed that, during his washing cycle, an average of 4.6 out of 10 socks migrate into a duvet cover and 5.6 out of 10 escape.
However, his research leads to an even more interesting thought: during a wash, many socks must be transiting in and out all the time and all we see is the final result.
Talia Morris, Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
Previously, Brian King described duvet covers as 鈥渢extiferous (the textile equivalent of a carnivore)鈥�.
Textiferous means bears or carries fabric. The term should be 鈥渢extivorous鈥� (eats fabric). Trust me, I鈥檓 a linguist.
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