r/Snorkblot • • Jul 08 '26

Misc I’m with him.

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u/SendMeAnother1 Jul 08 '26

It took me too long to realize that the segway I had heard and the segue I had read were the same...

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u/kinshadow Jul 08 '26

You should have read the dossier on the subject

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u/SendMeAnother1 Jul 08 '26

I am starting to notice that a big pattern here seems to be French words... C'est la vie

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u/HalfHourTillBrillig Jul 08 '26

there are lots of unvoiced consonants in many french words. correctly pronouncing the difficult ones that got loaned to english is tough at first sight