From John Lapthorne
In “The word” you castigate map-makers for sanitising names (5 August, p 48). However, I observed the same tendency in a recent article in New Scientist. You likened the agglomeration of stellar dust to “dust bunnies”. This had me puzzled for a time until I realised it referred to bunches of fluff found below beds and the like.
This is “slut’s wool”.
Le Vigan, Gard, France
