Re: [Conlangs-Conf] Witty slogan
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 15, 2006, 14:27 |
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From: "Sai Emrys" <sai@...>
>> "SegWay" as in "trendy means of transport"?
>> Or "segue" as in "follow-up, sequence"?
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> |segue| -> /si:g/
> |segway| -> /s3gw3j/
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> Latter is synonymous with former, but I use the two discretely.
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> - Sai
I may be wrong here, but I have always pronounced segue as "segway." Just
checked AHD--that's an acceptable pronunciation. Straight from the Italian,
taken from L. seguire, "to follow."
It's an awkward spelling, I'll admit, and sometimes, in writing to people, I
put an accent over the final e. Segway is perfectly clear.
Sally
Sally
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