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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Segue for me. I pronounced it seg-goo and my mom busted out laughing.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Huh… don’t think I’ve ever seen segue written down. I’d be writing Segway if I had to.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sounds like something you ride or a place that makes so so sandwiches.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Now that I think about it... it makes sense now! A segway is a segue between two places!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Exactly! A segue between the inventor's life and death!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I was at the store with my partner and I was like

“What’s… kwee-know-ah?”

[-] Squirrel 3 points 1 year ago

I'm still not 100% on how that is pronounced.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

My partner looks at me and says… “KEEN-WAH???” and I’m like uhhh suuuure, that one…

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've heard segue being spoken in so many different ways that I have no fucking clue which is the correct. Se-geh, segway, se-goo-ee

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The second one you wrote is the correct way to pronounce it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I tend to read it as Sergey without the "r".

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That word's spelling is a practical joke and you can't convince me otherwise.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Challenge accepted: non-standard spellings are very common. I won't use the obvious example, rough/though/through/tough/cough/enough/Gough, I'll try to keep on theme. So give these ones a go: argue, vague, ague, merengue, brogue, chaise-longue, fatigue... are these all practical jokes or just accidents of lexicographic history?

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