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Chris -- 2018-04-11
To “weigh in on†something means to bring one’s moral, intellectual or physical weight to bear on a matter. We could say, for example, that “we debated futilely until our resident guru decided to weigh in on the issues that were dividing us.â€
Thousands of web page authors think the idiom is to “way in on.†Perhaps they may visualize the idiom as a move to insert themselves into another person’s path.
Examples:
Blog entry: “It’s also my turn to way in on the Novell/Microsoft deal. †(http://www.tester.ca/category/informatique/)
Blog comment: “Does anyone care to way in on why the authorship one
of the most popular pieces of popular advertising
music has consistently been misrepresented?†(http://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2008/09 … mmercials/)
Golf blog comment: “Christmas is coming and many of us respect your opinions. When are you going to way in on the burner irions?†(http://thesandtrap.com/bag_drop/taylorm … d_xd_irons)
Comment on newspaper piece: “Now I ask you and every other journalist who has wayed in on this subject, where do your loyalties lie? †(http://blogs.denverpost.com/sports/2007 … ying-tall/)
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I was pretty sure I’d seen a discussion here of the eggcornish “under wayâ€/“under weigh†alternation, but all I found was Joe’s list of errors from Paul Brians’ work:
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … p?pid=4490
Anyhow, it’s a closely related example, and there are other examples. I have the following:
Bush did a quick fix. He always pleases the masses for a time, without waying the consequences of his actions.
Maina however caution[s] parents to way out the benefits of homeschooling against their children’s needs before making a decision.
Waying The Shortcomings And Positives For Using A Cracking Website For Spyware Nuker?
waying the odds
Most of these are subject to an eggcornish interpretation involving mental projection as a part of evaluation. Whether people think of it that way or are simply (and logically) misspelling weigh , who knows.
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Weigh/way is of course a roundtripper.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2009-03-20 22:56:12)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Yes, I also thought I had seen a post about “weigh/way anchor.” I couldn’t find it.
There’s are discussions of “wade/wage in on” at http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=903 and http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=2220 . I also note that Ben Zimmer mentioned “way in on” in his analysis of “way anchor” in the database.
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kem wrote:
Perhaps they may visualize the idiom as a move to insert themselves into another person’s path.
My first thought was that way as it is used here may indicate personal preference or belief, after the expression “go your own way.” My second thought is similar to Ben Zimmer’s: “This eggcorn perhaps reinterprets the expression to imply that one finds ‘a way in on’ the matter at hand.” In either case I think way in the sense of “direction” or “path” acts as a metaphor for a position, view, or set of beliefs. Which, again, is not that far off from Kem’s formulation.
Nice find.
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