So, spelling has never been my strong point. I peaked, i think, in around third grade. I remember specifically being in the back of the room with the teacher and another student as we were the finalists for the class’ representative for the school spelling bee. My word was “loose” and I remember thinking that I knew how to spell that word, but spelling it right might mean I would then have to go to the next phase and possibly have to do this spelling thing in front of the room. I also thought about how my same teacher gave a student a hard time for asking him how to spell “Halloween” and he kept singing the song “h-a-double-l-o-w-double-e-n” and she didn’t like that. So I spelled “loose”, “l-o-s-e” and I lost.
Several years later, spelling checkers on computers came out and my spelling went out the door.
In my professional life, I was IM-ing someone and asked how to spell that word that meant transitioning from one thing to another, as in, “that was a good blank into the new topic”. He told me “segue”. I believe I asked how to spell the full word. There was some silly back and forth as I’m a Computer Science major and he was some English major or some such. Ultimately, I was the idiot when I learned that, of course, he was right and I was dumb.
All that said, I couldn’t have been happier when I read this AP article about Clinton going to North Korea (not unlike the old Vulcan proverb, “Only Nixon could go to China”) and saw:
Releasing the journalists would be a face-saving segueway into talks, they said.
Nice! Go editors!
An now I’ll stop procrastinating.
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