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by willvarfar 3573 days ago
'weary' means tired of something, 'wary' means cautious of something.
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barefootcoder 3573 days ago
Because our language is a mashup of multiple other languages, and thus the rules are inconsistent.

As for pronunciation of those two:

weary is pronounced like "ear" wary is pronounced like "air"

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nerdponx 3573 days ago
Right, and in the last year or so I've started to see people getting these terms confused.
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