I don't know where I've been since the 70s, but the article about inclusion of the word was the first time I had ever heard of pleather. Had to go look it up. But I also found this:

On average, the price of pleather costs three times less than its true leather counterpart.

This is such a BAD sentence I don't know exactly where to start. So I'll start with what really torqued my testicles: If pleather costs three times less than leather, what is the cost of something that is one time less than leather? What about two times less than leather? And What the HELL was the writer trying to get across? I can guess that the person meant to say that pleather cost a third of what leather costs, but it sure was a crappy way of phrasing it.

And if the price costs less than leather, how about the pleather itself?


TEd