Talk:way

I've encountered this strange usage in an old book from 1944 called "Stick and Rudder". Example:

"But he doesn't reach that cloud; he passes 'way underneath it."

It's not a misprint. Every time the author uses "way" as an adverb, it begins with an apostrophe. Is the adverb "way" short for something?

--174.101.198.62 21:15, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

I believe adverbial way comes from away, in which case we should split it off as a second etymology. Chuck Entz (talk) 00:22, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Translation glosses don't match senses

The first translation gloss is currently "wide path" but none of the noun senses seem to match this. At least none use the word "wide".

It also seems that none of the translations entries cover the sense "route" and the definitions seem to be oversy specific referring to "do you know the way" as knowing a road, whereas the way might consist of portions of several roads. In any case there's nowhere to put translations of this sense. — hippietrail (talk) 03:44, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

by way

Microsoft® Encarta® 2009. defines incidentally as

adverb 1. by way: used to introduce additional information such as something that the speaker has just thought of 2. by chance: by chance or by accident

Does by way deserve an entry of its own? --Backinstadiums (talk) 13:27, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

• No. They probably mean "by the way". Eventually you are going to realise that Encarta is not to be trusted. SemperBlotto (talk) 13:30, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

@SemperBlotto: Otherwise, why is the left out? I've noticed lexicographic works do this often in brief headings such as this one --Backinstadiums (talk) 13:34, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

one way or the other

Is one way or the other idiomatic enough? --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:52, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

that way: [Informal.] in love or very fond of (usually fol. by about or for)

that way, [Informal.] in love or very fond of (usually fol. by about or for):
The star and the director are that way. I'm that way about coffee.
https://www.wordreference.com/definition/that

--Backinstadiums (talk) 17:03, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

any which way

any which way in any manner whatever; indifferently or carelessly:
Doing your work any which way is just not good enough.

or is it just SoP? --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:21, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

by a long way

​by a great amount He was the best by a long way.--Backinstadiums (talk) 09:23, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

long way? as in Our friendship stretches back a long way. --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:00, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

on the way to

Brazil is on the way to becoming one of the world’s strongest economies. --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:34, 1 February 2021 (UTC)