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It's a pretty interesting phenomenon. There are a lot of perfectly normal English words that are usually only used in written work rather than spoken, and I oft
by kccqzy 3y ago
It's a pretty interesting phenomenon. There are a lot of perfectly normal English words that are usually only used in written work rather than spoken, and I often pronounce them wrong, having never heard anyone pronounce them. "Segue" is one of these words.
- glandium 3y agoInterestingly, I had a weird experience with that very word. I had seen it written. And I had heard it. But I didn't know they were the same word until one time I randomly saw captions in a video where it was said.
- smcameron 3y agoMy college roommate got tripped up by the word "misled". He knew the spoken word as it was meant to be pronounced, (miss led), but didn't recognize the written word as that same word, and had this other word in his head that meant the same thing that he pronounced "myzulled." One day, he said something like, "I was myzulled!", so I said... "do.. do you mean 'misled?'" at which point the light bulb moment occurred, and afterwards, we continued to deliberately use the "myzulled" mispronunciation as an inside joke.