some strange misnomers

• Camphor balls do not contain camphor. They are made of naphthalene.

• A Camel's hair brush is not made of Camel's hair. It is made up of squirrel fur.

• A steel-jacketed bullet is not steel-jacketed. Its jacket is made of brass.

• Shakespeare's Mid Summer Night's Dream does not take place in the Summer.(Its time is the spring: April 29 to May 1).

• Bee sting is not the sting of bees. It is the first milk given by a cow after calving.

• The duck hawk is not a hawk; it is a falcon.

• The horned owl is not horned. Two tufts of feathers were mistaken for horns.

• The Douglas fir, also known as the Douglas spruce, is neither a fir nor a spruce-but a pine tree!