2021-03-19
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด W – way & far, much more & weight
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง way = ‘WEY’
ออกเสียง Weys = ‘WEYZ’
ออกเสียง Weight = ‘WEYT’
Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary
Ways & way
In some dialects it’s common to say
“you’ve got a ways to go before you’ve saved enough to buy a Miata,”
but in standard English it’s “a way to go.”
Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary
Way & far, much more
Young people frequently use phrases like
“way better” to mean “far better” or “very much better.”
In formal writing, it would be gauche (lacking social grace)
to say that Impressionismis “way more popular” than Cubism
instead of“much more popular.”
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions
way & ways & weights
Way is colloquial when used to mean “away”:
“The mine is away (not way) across the mountain.
Equally colloquialand to be avoided in formal writing are
“in a bad way,”
“to come my way” (“to achieve success”), and
“act the way he does.”
In expression such as “a long ways to town,”
ways is a dialectal, substandard substitute for way.
In nautical terms,
the expression should be “under way,”not “under weight.”
That is, a vessel must weight (lift) its anchor
before it can get“under way.”
“Ways¸ the pluralof the noun way, is correct in sentences like this:
“Many ways were open to him.”
“The newly christened ship slid down the ways into the welcoming water.”
Except asthe name of a committee, (American Politic)
“ways and means”is a wordy phrase:
waysand means are interchangeable in meaning.
The overused expression “in any way, shape or form” is redundant because these terms are synonymous:
reduce six words to three.
