Loose character

Why are we loosing so many orders?” e-mailed my Head of Sales. “Are we not whetting our proposals carefully?” I tried to imag...

Why are we loosing so many orders?” e-mailed my Head of Sales. “Are we not whetting our proposals carefully?” I tried to imagine all of us sitting in one place and carefully sharpening our blades to chop off those extra words in the proposals. So that the orders are loose-fitting and comfortable. It took me a while to understand that he was talking of losing orders and vetting proposals.

Once upon a time, I was a different person. I insisted on correct spellings, correct usage and correct grammar in communication, even if it was only an e-mail message! Worse, as I read something, if there was a spelling error, I got completely side-tracked and just could not progress further. Wrong spellings jumped right out of the page in font size 44 to hit me between my eyes. I wasted time correcting each wrong word and spelling. As a result, I always missed deadlines.

Initially I thought that it was a sleep of the pain. But the consistency with which these keep poring in makes me believe that the writer is suffering from lack of slip or is in pen to churn out such purls. There confidence and comfort with wrong you sage puts my seven year old to shame. I continue to pour over dictionaries to get it write. But the more I red, the more it lead me from chaos to confusion.

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Pronunciation is the other mystery. Where I live, “lion” is usually pronounced as “loin”. Therefore, I am confused as to whether “loin” should be pronounced as “loin” or “lion”? If the zoo-keeper ran away from his caged beasts, would we write, “He left his ‘loins’ and ran away?” It has even crept into my favourite newspaper! It recently carried an article about Harry Potter’s latest escapades and how Hermione was displaying more mature and adult feelings. Only, her name was spelt as Hermoine rather like “boilogy” or “voilate”.

So, I no longer right wrongs or maybe I just write wrongs! Will someone please bale me out? I am fast loosing my touch and becoming a lose character! At this rate my family and friends will soon be crying fowl!

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