@rnv I pronounced it se-gooey for years because I'd only seen it in print. Language is dumb.
@rnv I pronounced it se-gooey for years because I'd only seen it in print. Language is dumb.
@smokey I think even Latin was a big mistake. We never should have left Proto-Indo-European. // @ian\_whitney
@odd Ha! I guess the Romans never need to segue from one subject to another :-P (I should check my dictionaries, though I suspect they’re less exhaustive than Whitaker’s Words—another blast from the past!) Even though “segue” ultimately derives from “sequor”, my gut says the Latin equivalent probably would have come from “transito”, but what do I know ;-)
@smokey Right, if I had ever realized segue is a close cognate with sequence, the gueh/queh sound is right there...
@smokey 📜🤓👍 I will not contest your findings! I’m merely a part time fan of Latin, no book learning for me. (Except the odd skimming through “Nil Desperandum”). Came across a Wikipedia page while looking for a link just now…