Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them:
SEGUE / SEGWAY
You may laugh if you like (as my husband did when he saw me writing this), but I really have come across the use of Segway (without the capital S) to mean segue in a written article. This particular error will likely be limited to this century since the Segway, a two-wheeled, self-balancing scooter produced by Segway Inc., was not revealed to the public until 2001 and will probably be gone from the personal-transporter scene long before 2100 arrives.
Just to be clear, Segway is a brand name for this particular type of personal transporter and therefore considered to be a proper, thus capitalized, noun. The verb segue, on the other hand, means make a transition without pause or interruption, and the noun segue refers to such a transition.
INCORRECT: I love the way the director makes one scene segway into another so the film keeps moving right along.
CORRECT: I love the way the director makes one scene segue into another so the film keeps moving right along.
INCORRECT: I really enjoyed the segue tour we took of historic St. Augustine.
CORRECT: I really enjoyed the Segway tour we took of historic St. Augustine.
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