[zelphirkalt]

I am not a native speaker, but the two words do not sound even remotely the same.

How does this mistake happen so often? Can you explain people's thought process a bit? Is it just: "Something something 'seg...' ... ah I know, I will simply use another random word that starts with the same 3 letters and doesn't make sense in this phrase!"?

Also this is the first time I see it.

[roryokane]

> the two words do not sound even remotely the same

Pronounced correctly, “segue” sounds just like “Segway” – not like “seg-oo”, as you might have assumed.

[zelphirkalt]

TIL, thanks! You are right, that I assumed it would be like "seg-oo".

[girvo]

The two words are pronounced identically.

[nightpool]

Why would you opine on the way the words are pronounced if you've never seen them before and clearly did not take the time to look them up at all?

[tomjakubowski]

Segue is borrowed from Italian, the "ue" is a diphthong like English "way" or Spanish "güey"