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Subject: Re: TWL: for the good of the order
From: Wesley Eldred (weldred@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 08:50:15 EST
Glenn:
My response to Richard follows:
Richard:
American Heritage Dictionary, second entry for weigh states: "Used only
in the phrase under weigh. (Variant of way.)"
Webster's Third International Unabridged has entries for both "underway"
and "under weigh".
FWIW
Wesley
Since posting that response to Richard I checked that most weighty of
references, the Oxford English Dictionary, which also supports the usage
if not the derivation stating that under weigh is "a common var. of
under way, from erroneous association with the phr. "to weigh anchor"".
Examples of this usage are cited from 1777 onwards.
Wesley
weldred@XXX.XXX
Glenn Williams wrote:
>
> Wes.
> To weigh something is to ascertain it's weight. Right?
> The term to weigh anchor came from those mythic days of sail when a bunch of
> the boys tramped around a capstan feeling the weight of the anchor as they
> hauled it up.
> I'm with Zeke.
> Cheers
> Glenn Williams
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wesley Eldred" <weldred@XXX.XXX>
> > Zeke:
> >
> > "Weigh" is a vaiant form of "way" and, since one "weighs anchor" before
> > one can move one's vessel, I view "under weigh" as an fully acceptable
> > nautical turn of speech.
> >
> > My opinion only
> >
> > Wesley
> > Zeke Anderson wrote:
> > >
> > > For the good of the order.... it's underway, not under weigh. As long as
> > > we're here, lose is not to win, loose is not fastened down.
> > >
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