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I'm picking "Colonel" needs to be respelled to match how it's pronounced.

Try to pick a word no one else has picked. What word are you respelling?

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[โ€“] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Segue
I always trip over that one and start reading it as French.

[โ€“] Nemo@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just learned last month I've been doing the same thing and mispronouncing it for over three decades. But it's Italian!

[โ€“] fubo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the uncut version of Romeo and Juliet, there was a vague segue to a Montague tongue.

[โ€“] Nemo@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

tongue, there's another fucker, I tells ya

[โ€“] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Problem is that when you write it as pronounced, it becomes segway. Which just makes me think of those two-wheeled scooter thingies.

[โ€“] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Seg-Yoo

That's how my coworkers were pronouncing it, til I pointed out... Who knew how long that was going for, lol

[โ€“] mercano@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The now-defunct electric scooter company spelled it as it should be, Segway.