seguing

English

Etymology

Occasionally merely a typo for the intended word (segueing), but more often a misconstruction born of the fact that some people mispronounce segue as /siːɡ/ via a spelling pronunciation that misapprehends the word's spelling as being analogous to those of league, vague, or plague. When that source of the error is operative, the imagined pronunciations are */siːɡɪŋ/ for *seguing and */siːɡd/ for segued.

Verb

seguing

  1. Misspelling of segueing, or misconstruction of segueing.
    • 2009 February 9, Ashante Infantry, “Some things old and new at Grammy Awards”, in Toronto Star‎[1]:
      Other performance highlights included the Jonas Brothers and Stevie Wonder seguing from "Burnin' Up" into "Superstition"; Carrie Underwood's hard-edged delivery of "Last Name" and Jay-Z's freestyle intro to Coldplay's "Viva la vida."
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