I recently discovered something that both annoyed me and made me feel slightly stupid.
The word ‘segue’ is not pronounced ‘seeg’. It is, instead, pronounced ‘segway’.
Now at this point, I really really hope that a few of you are thinking ‘the Segway; isn’t that just the wheeled alternative to walking around that debuted in the early noughties?’ Well, sadly, no. It turns out that segway is the correct pronunciation of the word segue, which means to move seamlessly from one topic to another.
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