Anchors Away! Or, Wait — Is it Anchors Aweigh?

One sounds reasonable and the other sounds made up, right? How can "aweigh" make more sense than "away"? Find out what a sailor actually yells when he lifts an anchor here.

Anchor aweigh” means the anchor is no longer touching bottom and the ship is officially underway. Gotta have the anchors aboard first, so Kate was nice

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