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For those that don’t know, they are sometimes pronounced the exact same, which is why they are often mixed up (see also affect and effect). Where I’m from weary
by SOLAR_FIELDS 8y ago
For those that don’t know, they are sometimes pronounced the exact same, which is why they are often mixed up (see also affect and effect). Where I’m from weary is pronounced WEER-y though.
- yutghgh 8y agoNot true (at least in the US): weary (at least the adjective) is pronounced with a "we" at the beginning, while wary is pronounced with a "wear" at the beginning.
- macintux 8y agoI hear "weary" spoken so very rarely that I have no idea how it's pronounced here (Indiana). I can't even make up my mind how I pronounce it, but I'd wager it's almost, but not quite, indistinguishable from wary.
- ars 8y agoOne is w-ee-ry the other w-ah-ry.
- macintux 8y agoYes...ish. That's the correct pronunciation, but neither are used frequently enough for me to be confident that's the actual pronunciation, and I'd wager it's different in different places.
- pritambaral 8y ago> w-ah-ry I've always heard it pronounced way-ree.
- acct1771 8y agoWare-ee?
- afandian 8y agoOf course it varies with accent and locale. So phonetic transcriptions don't help unless we use IPA. But in British English, "weary" has a diphthong and "wary" does not. Very distinctly different words. On the subject, we pronounce "router" and "router" (two different words, same spelling) differently, one with a diphthong, one without.
- jazoom 8y agoThey're also sometimes spelled the same. Doesn't make it correct.