to think you are NOT weary

[DontPanicMrMannering]

DH and everyone else. You are not in fact tired of something that concerns/elicits caution of you. You are WARY of it.

Ok OK? I'm right and in no way unreasonable

At least she didn't say he'd "radished" his dinner :o

Defuse/diffuse !

And my parents say to my utter annoyance 'he woofed it down'

Wolfed ! It's wolfed !!

Had a meeting last week in which the most senior person there kept saying "gambit" instead of "gamut".

gambit = a manoeuvre which you are using to give you an advantage;
gamut = the whole range.

Quite different!

A colleague says "relative" when she means "relevant".

Both bring on my nervous tic. But them I'm well known as a the office pedant.

Except I guess they call you the office pendant

Stealth - I hold up my hand to having frequent, quite irrational, response to some colloquialisms. I find them wearisome

oooh aye they are that'm