Unflubbify Your Writing: Bite-Sized Lessons to Improve Your Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar by Sara Rosinsky

Author:Sara Rosinsky [Rosinsky, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shiny Red Copy
Published: 2021-05-08T22:00:00+00:00

Segway vs. Segue

Before 2001, I could have just told you, “Segway is not a word.”

But today, it’s the well-known name of those wheeled personal transporters used by tourists, police officers, and warehouse workers, as well as the company that manufactures them.

Long before Segway was born, we had the word segue, which is pronounced exactly the same way, even though it doesn’t look like it.

Segue can be a verb or a noun, and it refers to an unbroken transition from one piece of music to another, or from one topic to another.

You might hear someone say, “The comedian managed to segue from the topic of airplane seats to the Loch Ness Monster without even pausing.”

So whenever you use Segway, you should capitalize it and possibly follow it with a registered trademark symbol, because you will be talking about a branded product. In all other circumstances, the spelling you want is segue.

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