Speling probblemms
Friday 26th: Today is India Republic Day.
Getting the correct spelling can sometimes be problematic even for native speakers but when English is not your first language there can often be comic consequences. I know a Kashmiri guy in Candolim who had his shop sign painted with ‘Trager of Haven’. It should have been ‘TIGER OF HEAVEN’.
In the back of a menu in one of the beach shacks is a list of the cocktails you can find anywhere: Pina Colada, Tom Collins, Screwdriver, Bloody Mary, Love on the Rocks, etc. Nothing unusual there, however, they have tried to be enterprising and add their own creation using the local firewater Feni but I don’t think they have really hit the spot. They wanted to invent something romantic to drink while watching the sunset and I think they were aiming for ‘Feni On The Waves’. Unfortunately they wrote ‘FANI ON THE WE’, little imagination is needed to guess what that tastes like!!! Mmmm… interesting little number, a rich yellow colour with ammonia on the nose……
