between the cracks

A friend gave me a CD

by an artist he admired

The artist's name on the CD cover

is JOAN.

When I saw that, I thought to myself,

"What an interesting way to spell Joanne. J-O-A-N.

JO-AN instead of Jo-anne!

Maybe she is Spanish.

Or Canadian."

...

...

The next day I looked again at the CD cover and saw straight away that the artist's name

is Joan.

And Joan is the perfectly natural and regular way to spell ... Joan.

A moment of intriguing linguistic transposing?

Or will I one day look back and see this moment as the

beginning

(early onset, what's that word, starts with A, it's what old people get)

of the end

?