[Sca-cooks] OT - Somewhat amusing in light of recent healthy food rants

Lilinah lilinah at earthlink.net
Thu Oct 19 13:30:21 PDT 2006


I wrote:
>  I have been guilty, too. It was quite a while before i realized that
>  the verbal, musical, or theatrical link between two different things
>  was not spelled "segway" - it's actually "seque" - there should be an
>  accent aigue over the final e, but we generally don't bother with
>  such things in English. And i didn't realize that the written word
>  "seque" was not pronounced "seeg".

Well not only did i accidentally put a "q" where there should be a 
"g", but the word should never have an accent, since it's of 
*Italian* origin - "segue" means "follow".

-- 
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita



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