I've never liked underway—one word—as opposed to the more venerable under way (2 words), but it seems to have taken over. As I've said before: language changes mostly through fuckups that get embraced by the public. All you need is one illiterate moron to fuck something up, plus a bunch of morons who don't know any better to accept the fuckup, and you get aforementioned pronounced "affer-mentioned," and underway, and honing in instead of homing in. Sure, language also changes through self-conscious rebelliousness and creative license, but it's still mostly fuckups by morons, abetted by morons.
Not a single shot has been fired, but the meme phase of the war on Greenland is well underway pic.twitter.com/eeI3364FzW
— Sweet Meteor O'Death (@smod4real) January 21, 2026
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