From Mansize to Extra Large: A Hay Fever Sufferer's Reflection on Semantic Confusion
Summary
A reflective and witty essay from "The Atlas of Semantic Confusion" series, where the author muses on hay fever, the inadequacy of standard tissues, and the rebranding of "Mansize Tissues" to "Extra Large Tissues" in 2018. The piece uses this mundane observation as a springboard for broader semantic and cultural commentary.
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· 3 pulledDespite sensibly dosing myself up with antihistamines I've still been needing regular recourse to paper tissues, while simultaneously considering how flimsy and inadequate our usual ones were.
Then I remembered the existence of Mansize Tissues marketed by a well-known global company, a product since 2018 officially rebranded as Extra Large Tissues
From The Atlas of Semantic Confusion © C A Lovegrove.
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