Why do people now say weary when they mean wary?

Affect for  effect and vice versa

Would/could/should of rather than have

Commencing sentences, inappropriately, with "So"

Answering questions "Yes/No"

The list is endless...

I am used to poor English being used in the media. The reason I mentioned this is because it appears to be a recently established blight!

It makes you wonder were they come from

Why do people say Mick Shannon when they mean Mick Channon?

Contrary to what some people think, standards are not falling...they're plummeting.

Why do people write "loose" when they mean "lose" yet they still pronounce it as "lose" and not "loose?"

Because they are idiots

Fair comment.

weary = tired wary = beware of

Perhaps they're just weary of saying wary , or maybe too wary of saying weary.

Mrs S won't allow me to watch any quiz show where a basic grasp of general knowledge is required. She can't bear the sound of my jaw hitting the floor when they get the simplest things wrong, yet know everything there is to know about celebrities.
Had one yesterday when a guy was given 9 choices of Scottish sounding names and had to pick the ones that were NOT the names of a loch in Scotland.
His first pick - Ness.

im wary of 2017 threads while some people are weary from rico fetching them up

Why do some people keep saying they are "not sure" when they are 100% sure?

Sep 27, 2024 -- 5:45PM, elise wrote:

im wary of 2017 threads while some people are weary from rico fetching them up

Yep - and who checks the date on the OP? Meanwhile he gets some sort of weird kick out setting this trap every day. It fkg pathetic!!

u don't need to check the opening date you just need to see that rico has recently posted b4 u

Yeah but he didn't did he? There were others stuck in the hole before me. Checking if Rico is somewhere on a thread is like checking to see if the world is still spinning.

Not too many O level English certificates owned by tv presenters l guess.This bastardisation of our mother tongue will continue unabated.Basically,the language is fxxxxx.

Had a teacher who said "where" when he meant "were" and vice versa, another pronounced "genre" as "gendra" Quite a few of the male ex-pupils ended up on the sausage, in prison, dead from drug overdoses in their 20s, etc.

..because text speak has already ruined the English Language. Too many people think grammar is not important. And...teachers are thick nowadays..!

Completely agree,Knight.

steerforth..one of the best posts I have ever seen one here...

Your house must be the same as mine when a quiz is on! My missus puts her hand up at me to silence my reply as soon as one of the continually thick contestants gets the most obvious question wrong!!

On a topic not too far removed, one quiz the other day (cannot remember what one) saw a contestant give their job as 'Inter-airport travel executive'. Pressed on what this involved by the host, she replied 'I drive a mini-bus between Gatwick and Heathrow'.

And she was serious because her first two answers showed she did not have the wit to be taking the mickey!! Sorry to say, but a lot of UK society delude themselves about everything, starting with how clever they think they are!!

enniwun seen rico? im weary of replying..wary is he?

this hould be discussed more imo

Are they not saying leery or leary as it means the same?

salient point mickey

there was someone recently that used pacific a few times rather than specific and they were on a tv news report