The Importance Of Being Oscar Wilde...

Went and saw The Importance Of Being Earnest on Sunday evening. I'd forgotten just how good Oscar Wilde's work is... I loved the play when I first read the script, back in highschool, and the current movie was just as good. Judi Dench is brilliant, as always, and the rest of the cast is pretty damn good too.

I speaks betterer englishes than you

People just don't have vocabularies, these days. It annoys me.

...[ somebody rather high up at the client getting the report ]:
> Just wondering, why does the ... weekly report say "perspective"
> at the top?  Is it supposed to say "prospective'"?

...[ passes through 2 other humans before it gets to me ]...
...[ my response ]...

  perspective
       n 1: a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what
            follows from the positivist view" [syn: {position}, {view}]
       2: the appearance of things relative to one another as
          determined by their distance from the viewer [syn: {linear
          perspective}]

  prospective
       adj 1: concerned with or related to the future; "prospective
              earnings"; "a prospective mother"; "the statute is
              solely prospective in operation" [ant: {retrospective}]
       2: anticipated for the near future; "the prospective students";
          "his prospective bride" [syn: {prospective(a)}]

I believe the ... weekly report is the former (sense 2), not the latter.

I can change it to just be "Summary", if that is less confusing.
Perspective is a rarely used word these days.  So is
prospective, for that matter.