Don't you hate it when people use...

[FattipuffsandThinnifers]

...weary when they actually mean wary. Arghhhh. That's all, just wanted to get it off my chest.

Aaaargh - feel your pain. Lovely manager giving training, but she did this soooo many times I was fighting not to flinch every time she said ' I get a bit weary'. you get tired when people tell you certain things??

That drives me batty. I think DP and I are the only people we know that say wary.

Do people? I've never noticed.

Perhaps it's because I do it. Please clarify.

"I'd been walking for miles and was really weary afterwards."

"He was a bit sinister so I was wary of him."

LOL, - So people say 'weary of him'?

Well glad that's cleared up then as it is not one of the many mistakes I do make.

Starlight I'm sure you don't!

I have seen it twice today on MN alone, would you believe it.

My friend says weary instead of wary and I've been dying to correct her for the last twenty years.

It's like the bought and brought thing. My current make me scream at the TV / radio moment is the increasing use of disinterested when they actually mean uninterested.

They actually have quite different meanings but hey ho....

Lol, disinterested/uninterested gets me. I tried to enlighten MIL, big mistake...

Also seen recently, effected for affected, loads of your for you're, should of for should have and don't get me started on the various versions of 'definitely'. All on MN too

Ooh, feel better now, thanks.

Also, in reference to the OP. I think one way you could get away with mixing up 'wary' and 'weary' in speech, is if you had a very thick West Indian accent

I suppose you could get weary of being wary of someone?