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Segue
I always trip over that one and start reading it as French.
I just learned last month I've been doing the same thing and mispronouncing it for over three decades. But it's Italian!
In the uncut version of Romeo and Juliet, there was a vague segue to a Montague tongue.
tongue, there's another fucker, I tells ya
Problem is that when you write it as pronounced, it becomes segway. Which just makes me think of those two-wheeled scooter thingies.
Seg-Yoo
That's how my coworkers were pronouncing it, til I pointed out... Who knew how long that was going for, lol
The now-defunct electric scooter company spelled it as it should be, Segway.