FWIW, I did a quick search of our local slack and found 2x the the number of instances of "segue" compared to "segway". And most of the instances of "segway" (around 60%) refer to the actual device, with only a handful of mistakes (around 4). So I'm not sure that this spelling is more common in a corporate environment—maybe do a search for yourself and see!

Hrm. I haven't even heard that so far, maybe because I rarely did meetings.

Looking it up in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segue they even warn about that!

English is spelled phonetically. Just not Modern English phonetically but Middle English phonetically. And then it froze into ideography because of printing press.

Actually it's not an absurd take at all. The absurd take is that we "should not bend language around ignorance."

That's precisely how language changes over time. Language is not a strict set of rules. It's based on understanding and consensus, so sometimes things that are "wrong" do end up being accepted.

I suggest this as a great introduction into what languages are and how they evolve over time https://www.amazon.com/Language-Families-of-World-audiobook/...

Write that in Old English orthography and you'll make a more consistent argument.

Tbh, I’m more critical of commonly confused words in English like affect and effect, or discrete and discreet.

In more forgiving of mixing up homophones, even if one of them is a registered trademark (Segway).

I passed no judgement for or against, merely discussed that it was likely to happen.

I suggest you yourself take a second and explore why you think being smarmy on the internet is a way of getting people to agree with you.

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