Today one of my coworkers sent an email saying:
Dear X, Please don't miss to send Y's laptop to the support today.
I kindly replied to him alone saying that it should've been:
Dear X, Please don't forget* …
He told me that "miss" can be used in this context. Well my English isn't perfect, hence my question:
Is the word miss usable in that context?
Best Answer
The Oxford English Dictionary includes this usage under miss, v.1 II.5.a, but marks it archaic:
The construction seems to be alive and well in Indian English, either as a survival of the archaic construction or as an independent innovation; "don't miss to" gets plenty of Google-hits, many of them obviously Indian in origin.
Whether you consider it "usable" will probably depend on whether you're OK with using archaic constructions and/or Indian English. If not — e.g., if you want to sound like a native speaker — then you should avoid it.