Did you by any chance mean one of these? sea, segue
Examples
“On the other hand, the cost for a complete charge on a segway is about six cents of electricity in most parts of the US.”
“I as well grew up as a reader kid, and I as well heard my mother use the word segway in conversation all the time, and I knew about how a seeg worked in literature, and then ... lightbulb.”
“The first time I saw it, the word segway came ... antonio 9: In terms of sound quality (clarity of the treble and precision / precision of the bass) the PFE 112 and ...”
“Wait isn’t there a clip of G.W. Bush falling off a segway? hmmm if a segway is simple enough for a chimp to ride what does that say about our President?”
“if a segway is a wheelchair, then where does one sit?”
“I'm kind of disappointed in the fact that that word isn't actually spelt 'segway'.”
“Because in conversation my brain/mouth creates sentences around 'segway' and in writing my brain/fingers create sentences around 'seeg'.”
“My point is that I still think that I'm right, and the "segway" pronunciation sounds stupid to me still, but it's only been a few weeks.”
“I posted it up in the office today and had some very stimulating conversations with some others about the "segway" wannabe.”
“i think about maddox's idea every time i hear the word "segway", even if it is the wrong usage (like for standup comedy) its really cool, but either some of these guys cant skate or its not balancing enough.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘segway’.
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50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
walking, bicycle, bus, train, motorcycle, airplane, car, truck, segway, limousine, roller coaster, wheelbarrow and 130 more...
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Mundane Transformers
Bore that meets the eye.
potamogeton, testator, scrutator, isolator, confiteor, deflator, qwerty, susceptor, champertor, preemptor, disinfector, infractor and 91 more...
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Wordnik Spam Inquiries
We get a lot of spam emails at Wordnik that fit this pattern: "Mr Bob Wilson here and i will like to know if you do have X for sale". The words on this list represent a subset of such requested items.
burnisher, shaper vise, salt spreader, soil pulveriser, bible, flutes, baffles, crucifix cross, proofer, gazebo, real bubble wrap, roller tray and 206 more...
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ze list
favorites, of all sorts
obscure, pretentious, debacle, vintage, ostentatious, damsel, plethora, requiem, memoir, loathe, lackadaisical, misanthropic and 82 more...
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Kalli's Words
redundant, munchkin, escapade, natch, boom, fap, geek, nocturnal, pedantic, tactile, conversant, oxymoron and 188 more...
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Criswell Predicts
Words describing a future that may or may not be entirely grounded in reality. Not to be used for predictive purposes. I do not have the gift of premonition. In fact, all these ideas come from popu...
flying car, space tourism, big brother, soylent green, brave new world, first contact, domestic android, skynet, new world order, collectivism, world peace, laser pistol and 93 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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Microcars
Mostly model names, a few brand names and even the occasional colour shade or technical detail thrown in. Excellent resource here.
messerschmitt, tourenfahrzeug-ge..., goggomobil, bavarian blue, buckboard, zeta, frisky sprint, atlas babycar, coccinelle, rubber-in-torsion, avolette, tourisme and 113 more...
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Recent additions
Relatively new coinages, or adaptations of previously existing words.
firewall, bioterrorism, bling-bling, bluetooth, bobo, game face, microdermabrasion, metrosexual, microarray, sex worker, stained-glass cei..., stalkerazzi and 99 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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Conversations for the Ages
A list of words that have fascinating conversations on them. Or just, you know, really funny ones. If I missed any, I hope someone will let me know...
Also see a few other Wordizens' l...misuse, slough of despond, drinking problem, sausage fest, vergerhade, baromets, todal, googlewhack, quetzalcoatl, cheesewa, cheesois, absinthe and 187 more...
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The List Of Words That Rewrote The Hi...
Ah, yeah, this is a list of words that I think sound pretty funny... or dumb, either way, I like 'em so, yeah.
flabergasted, smash, wang, wordie, drum, rumplestiltskin, resistance, watt, hindu, universal serial bus, bearing, nematode and 138 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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Tanner's Words
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polly's Words
Tweets
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plethora When I first heard of the word, I was saying it in real life, imagining it to be spelled segway and reading it online as segue and just not connecting that they were the same word. Mar 13, 2008
skipvia Nothing to apologize for, c_b. I had forgotten about my own list until yours showed up. They complement each other nicely. Mar 5, 2008
chained_bear Ooh! And skipvia has a list just like it, but much more recent: Say What?. Sorry about that skipvia. Go see skipvia's page, everyone.
I'm chained_bear and I approve this message. Mar 5, 2008
reesetee Saaay, thanks! I just added some. :-) Mar 5, 2008
chained_bear Isn't there a list somewhere of words frequently subject to hilarious mispronunciations? *rummages*
Oh, shit. Yeah, it's mine! Here. I'm going to make it a public list, so go add your most hilarious misunderstandings of pronunciation! Mar 5, 2008
reesetee Mollusque, "anus" as a plural of "anu"? What a hilarious misunderstanding!
I know someone who pronounces crudite as CREW-dite, no matter what. I don't have the heart to correct her anymore. And then there's the friend who deliberately mispronounces words (strange sense of humor), so that I find myself pausing every time I use said words to be sure I haven't picked up the mispronunciations. Mar 5, 2008
skipvia You can embarrass yourself with gazebo as well... Mar 5, 2008
mollusque Were you feeling hungry, c_b? Reminds me of the time I pronounced canapes with only two syllables. That had a former girlfriend and her sister rolling on the floor.
But my best word blunder (thus far) was challenging anus in Scrabble, thinking it was the plural of the "anu", which I knew wasn't in The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. Mar 5, 2008
chained_bear Me too, mollusque--only we weren't playing jotto, and the word I mispronounced was intravenous. Mar 5, 2008
skipvia Since seque basically means a way to transition from one segment (of a topic, scene, etc.) to another, it's logical that you'd think it would be spelled segway. I learned the term in film school, back when we actually used film... Mar 5, 2008
mollusque Don't feel bad, John. The first time I ever said "segue", I pronounced it "seeg". I was playing jotto. My opponent burst out laughing that his verbophile friend should err so egregiously. (At least I was right that it was his target word.) Mar 5, 2008
john Only just now did I realize that the name Segway(tm) is a play on words.
I feel dumb. Mar 5, 2008
TechnoMom skipvia is correct. Segway is a brand name. Segue is the transition. Mar 5, 2008
skipvia Actually, shouldn't this be segue? A Segway is a scooter of sorts. Mar 5, 2008
kalli "To segway: Making a smooth transition to a different topic during a conversation." # Mar 5, 2008