Timming and Tunning

It is wonderful that my native tongue is that which is misspoken by more people worldwide than any other.

This week received a proposal for professional services, in Portuguese, which included a timetable for carrying out the work labelled "timming", and passed posters advertising a "tunning" meeting. This notwithstanding a rule in Portuguese that double consonants are only used with the letters "r" and "s".

Both errors are unacceptable. Coming from a professional firm that boasts that the staff involved in the project will have significant international experience, specifically in the UK, I can only conclude that the Partner did not read the proposal that he signed off on, since the word "timming" does not exist.

On the other hand, "tunning" is a word, derived from tunn, an archaic liquid measure. Probably not relevant to the car modification scene. The organisers of a tuning event, should really know better! One thing I think I'm sure of though: if their timming is off, their tunning won't work!