To find people confusing weary/leary/wary very annoying!

[ivftake1]

I keep seeing it around Facebook where people are saying they're 'leary about trying a new moisturiser' etc etc.. it's wary!

Wtf is horse paste???

@ivftake1

I keep seeing it around Facebook where people are saying they're 'leary about trying a new moisturiser' etc etc.. it's wary!

Its leery too

@ivftake1

You learn something new everyday!

I think you mean "every day".

A very angry post!!
Really it wasn't my intention to come across angry I was trying to explain some people don't naturally have good SPAG.
I thought the FB status was funny as I know you'd never post that as your status much easier as a faceless poster.

@ivftake1

Exhibit A this morning

Do you know what leery means? The actual definition is weary or suspicious of things...So whats the issue. Its an adjective that means wary.

Yes, leery can mean suspicious or wary. I'm with you on the confusion of weary with wary though.

And yes, it's 'every day', not 'everyday' unless you're using it as an adjective - e.g. 'an everyday outfit'.

What is horse paste?!

As above. All of this is missing the point.. HORSE PASTE 🐴😱🐴😱?

you don't listen to the Kaiser Chiefs much, do you?

Oh dear, seems this post has turned into quite the lead balloon for you OP

Haha, oh no 😂

Horse paste does appear to be a paste one administers to horses, either to worm them or calm them.

On that basis, I'd of been lairy of trying it to.

There are few things as satisfying as a wannabe grammar nazi getting it wrong

I imagine horse paste is like those little pots of fish paste you get but horse. 🥪

I've never seen this before! I understand weary wary but not how leary or leery could get in.
I think small grammatical errors, typos or simple mix ups aren't a big deal in informal communication and its often classist or ableist to be really judgemental.

But sometimes like with this example I'm just left baffled.

[quote KarlKennedysDurianFruit]@FallonsTeaRoom I was born and raised in Essex, with East London roots. I don't know anyone who would say I seen or they seen.[/quote]
You may not. I certainly knew quite a few people who did say that though.

See also: "I'm just been careful"

Leary/leery are correct in American English, meaning the same as wary.

Weary meaning wary is odd, but probably a case of dialect creeping into written language, in the same was “an” is increasingly substituted for “and” in written English by people who have such accents.

A women instead of a woman. I don't know weather to go. I so her in a shop. I'm on my brake at work. There getting on my nerves. Your always letting me down. I would of told her straight if I could of

Its pacific for specific that does me.How can you confuse the two?!

I seen this alot my self.

@K00kiEe

Also they instead of there

I don't quite understand, are people saying 'over they' instead of 'over there'?

That's a colloquialism to be fair. I heard that a lot in Essex/Suffolk and Norfolk

I've never spent time in those parts of the UK, you learn something new everyday! Ty.

For example:

Person A: there's a new ride at Alton towers.

Person B: is they (there)?

It grates on me when I see errors like this but I’d never correct anyone on it. I think there’s a difference between poor SPAG which is still comprehensible, and errors which really obscure meaning. That’s when it becomes an issue. In this regard it’s taken me some time to work out what’s meant by posters who use, especially, ‘been’ for ‘being’. I’d never encountered it until using Mumsnet.

YANBU see also worse/worst