"Away" > "way"

[Wilson Gray]

There's a TV commercial, only a local one, I think, in which the
voiceover woman makes the claim that something is

"_away_"

better than something else.

I've long had the feeling that, once upon a time, this use of "away"
was standard and _'way_ in this use was considered to be, at best a
colloquialism. This is occurrence of "away" in the commercial is the
only indication that I've had, in the past many, many years, that this
feeling may be based on what was once reality.

Anyone else?

-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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