The inspiration for this blog was an email that I received a few days ago. A potential dance team customer was inquiring about a costume with SEQUENCING on it.

Hmmm. In my world, SEQUENCES are when you do one thing after the other, in a particular order. The correct word is SEQUINS. I realize that not everyones SPELL-CHECK knows the correct term for those lovely little metallic or plastic discs that combine, oh, in a SEQUENCE to make a gorgeous, glitzy embellishment!

Do you get annoyed when people misspell your name or mispronounce it? Well, I do. This is sort of the same thing. Years ago, I began telling people that my name is Deb, when my name is really NOT Deb. It is Deborah or if you are an old friend, or a member of my family, it is Debbie, or Mom.

I simply prefer to have not-quite-my name spelled CORRECTLY, rather that wince at, horror-of-all-horrors, seeing Debra or Debora or Debby or Debi. Eeeww. Or mispronouncing De-BORE-ah.

OK, my Fashion Instructor, back at art school called me a very, oh, so French, Deb-eeee. It was the first time I felt my name had some sophistication and ooh-la-la, some exoticness to it!

I am sure that many, if not MOST of you can relate, to wanting your name correct. I TRULY apologize to EVERYONE that I have butchered either the spelling or the pronunciation of your name! I feel your pain.

But, back to SEQUINS. Our worlds seem to be ruled by sub-par spell-check programs, either in our text programs or Online. How frustrating is it for you, to find those little squiggly red lines under your words? You click on them, only to be given no clues as to just what the CORRECT spelling of the word might be? Or, worse yet, your text program gives you a totally WRONG word that may be spelled right, but is just not write. Oh, make that RIGHT.