23 DECEMBER 1911, Page 17

" UNDER WAY."

[To Tax EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Is it too late to enter a protest against the frequent misspelling weigh for way in the phrase to " get under way " P I notice it in the current number of Blackwood, p. 762, and even the Spectator (Special Literary Supplement, p. 937) gives its countenance to this spelling. Surely there is no justifica- tion for this usage, which probably arises from a confusion with the phrase to "weigh anchor."—I am, Sir, &c., H. T. F. Cambridge.