[Ads-l] "out way" for "outweigh"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Geoffrey Nunberg wrote:
>
> From a comment on an article at Atlantic.com
>
>> Emotion and logic are not of equal value. Does not science and the
>> collective efforts of humanity qualify as a higher form of discourse?
>> The needs of the many out way the feelings of a few.
>
> I figured this must be a one off, but Google returns 400+ actual hits
> for "out way the," the vast majority reanalyses of "outweigh."
[...]
> It doesn't seem to be in the eggcorn database.

No, but we do have "way anchor," "anchors away," and "way in (on)":

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/58/way/

And in the other direction, "fall by the weigh side," "weigh-lay," and
"weigh station":

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/478/weigh/

--bgz

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