Segway

I had a bit of trouble before I set up this blog in spelling 'segue', which is ironic really as I'd already picked out the title before I'd even written anything [digression: I actually wanted 'segue.blogspot' rather than 'segue-musings.blogspot', but some fiend of a blogger had beaten me to it]. Of course, my first step was to Google the word and check the results were concurrent with my understanding of the meaning. They weren't.

I, along with the other ignorant people of the world, had been spelling it Segway. Now, a Segway (according to Wikipedia) is “a two-wheeled, self-balancing electric vehicle invented by Dean Kamen”. In fact, I probably would never have found the article I was looking for if a multitude of equally foolish people had not preceded me, resulting in someone adding “Not to be confused with segue” to the top of the Wikipedia article I had opened.

Having discovered this, I then investigated the article for the correct Segue, and was disappointed to find that it was nowhere near as exciting as the two-wheeled, self-balancing electric vehicle I had previously been researching. In fact, to form my second segue (not Segway), I nearly chose my holiday destination based entirely on these cunning devises 3 years ago.