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Is it "under weigh," or "under way?"
- British English:
"UNDER WEIGH"
World Wide Words- "Under way" is now standard usage
- There's more about weigh and way, starting with Dutch in the eighteenth century
- American English: "under way, underway, under weigh"
The Columbia Guide to Standard American English, 1993- "...Under way and underway are both now Standard spellings of both adverbial and adjectival uses."
- There's more about the phrase, of course
Why bother with a post about this? I looked up current standard usage for another blog, and decided that I'd share what I found.
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