# Sharing my stupidity
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 15, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194 "2014-07-15T18:35:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/1 "2014-07-15T18:35:28Z")
Each day I check local news online. Today a news headline read “Chick-fil-A Breaks Ground on First Connecticut Restaurant.” I think, who cares it will not be in a location anywhere near me. (CT is a small state but nothing is near where I live since I do not live in the “cool” part of the state.) Anyway it is fast food and I do not usually care for FF.
But as I read it, repeating over and over chickfila chickfila, (chick fill uh) I think what a silly name for a restaurant. It takes a long while before my brain computes the capital A. Duh!
Chick filet :smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack:
Anyway I confess today’s stupidity since none of you know me IRL:D
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### Author:  [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/2 "2014-07-15T19:08:27Z")
Don’t feel bad. I had been an adult for many years before I realized that “segue” wasn’t pronounced like “seg.”
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### Author:  [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/3 "2014-07-15T19:13:28Z")
I didn’t know how to pronounce Chick-Fil-A either. I’m Canadian and we don’t have them here.
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### Author:  [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/4 "2014-07-15T19:27:47Z")
Chick-FEEL-uh, you’re breaking my heart…
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### Author:  [@common\_good](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/common_good)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/5 "2014-07-15T20:44:45Z")
A thread where I belong, finally. I didn’t know what lol meant until everyone else on the planet had known, i guess. I thought it meant lots o’ luck, or somewhat less likely, Land o’ Lakes. lol
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### Author:  [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/6 "2014-07-15T21:13:19Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#):
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> Don’t feel bad. I had been an adult for many years before I realized that “segue” wasn’t pronounced like “seg.”
Of course not. It’s two syllables and rhymes with ague 😉
(which, by the way, I thought was pronounced to rhyme with “plague” for many years).
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### Author:  [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/7 "2014-07-15T21:17:07Z")
> [@common\_good](#):
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> A thread where I belong, finally. I didn’t know what lol meant until everyone else on the planet had known, i guess. I thought it meant lots o’ luck, or somewhat less likely, Land o’ Lakes. lol
I heard a talk on the radio recently by a gentleman who confessed to assuming that LOL meant “lots of love,” since he had first encountered it in messages from his teenage son. So he used it liberally in all kids of messages to his family in friends - like when consoling his friend about a cancer diagnosis, or offering support for his sister who was going through a divorce. He was more than slightly mortified when he learned the actual meaning.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/8 "2014-07-15T22:05:59Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#):
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> Don’t feel bad. I had been an adult for many years before I realized that “segue” wasn’t pronounced like “seg.”
So how _does_ one properly pronounce “segue”. I don’t recall that I’ve ever heard it pronounced, and I would have (and did) always assume it was “seeg” except for the numerous mentions I see, right here on SDMB, that that’s wrong. And I just don’t have any real reason to bother looking it up myself.
ETA: Okay. So it’s pronounced sort of like (or exactly like?) that motorized mall-cop moving mochine?
ETA-2: And I have no idea how to pronounce “ague” neither, nohow.
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### Author:  [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/9 "2014-07-16T00:01:01Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#):
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> Don’t feel bad. I had been an adult for many years before I realized that “segue” wasn’t pronounced like “seg.”
It’s pronounced “sea goo”
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### Author:  [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/10 "2014-07-16T04:18:11Z")
Don’t lie to the man.
I’s pronounced “say-gooey.”
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/11 "2014-07-16T04:20:22Z")
> [@Flywheel](#):
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> Chick-FEEL-uh, you’re breaking my heart…
…you’re shaking my confidence, baby.
> [@ouryL](#):
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> It’s pronounced “sea goo”
Now that’s just mean!
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### Author:  [@JWT\_Kottekoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JWT_Kottekoe)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/12 "2014-07-16T04:37:03Z")
I used to wonder why your never heard anyone talk about La Jolla or write about another town named La Hoya.
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### Author:  [@yarblek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yarblek)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/13 "2014-07-16T10:24:01Z")
[Google](https://www.google.com/search?num=40&safe=off&site=&source=hp&q=segue&oq=segue&gs_l=hp.3.0.0l7j0i10j0l2.1126.2285.0.3205.6.6.0.0.0.0.78.357.5.5.0....0...1c.1.49.hp..2.4.291.0.XelykASOe70) will tell you how to pronounce some words. Literally. Just click the little speaker icon.
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### Author:  [@MostlyUseless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyUseless)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/14 "2014-07-16T11:11:35Z")
OK, maybe I am being stupid or being whooshed, but isn’t segue pronounced ‘seg way?’
There was a recent thread regarding pronunciations and I determined that some words I thought pronounced one way weren’t and it is the fault of the people around me. I parrot the vocabulary established in me by others. Anyone buying that?
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### Author:  [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/15 "2014-07-16T15:31:01Z")
> [@MostlyUseless](#):
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> OK, maybe I am being stupid or being whooshed, but isn’t segue pronounced ‘seg way?’
Okay we were just joking.
It’s really pronounced “egg-way.” The S is silent.
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### Author:  [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/16 "2014-07-16T15:41:22Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> ETA: Okay. So it’s pronounced sort of like (or exactly like?) that motorized mall-cop moving mochine?
Didn’t you ever wonder why the [Segway - a machine for smoothly transitioning from one location to another](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segway_PT) - was named that?
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/17 "2014-07-16T15:49:59Z")
> [@EmilyG](#):
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> I’m Canadian and we don’t have them here.
Somewhere, the captain of the Canadian Team just stepped up on the highest Gold Medal platform as “Oh Canada” starts to reverberate throughout the stadium…
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/18 "2014-07-16T16:58:27Z")
> [@EmilyG](#):
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> I didn’t know how to pronounce Chick-Fil-A either. I’m Canadian and we don’t have them here.
Yes but it’s a “play”(?) on a French word so you should _totally_ know it! 😃
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/19 "2014-07-16T17:15:44Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> Yes but it’s a “play”(?) on a French word so you should _totally_ know it! 😃
It looks like it rhymes with Godzilla, which is what I thought when I read it here a couple of years back. Their homophobic tendencies didn’t really make headline news in Canada.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-stupidity/693194/20 "2014-07-16T17:27:46Z")
I’ve mentioned this one before. For a long time I thought dour was pronounced dow-er (rhyming with sour). It’s actually pronounced du-er (rhyming with bluer).
But now I associate the word with Dewar’s Whiskey and I mentally pronounce it with a Scottish accent.
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