r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Upstairs_Cash8400 • 2d ago

English for Beginners

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u/Swervin69 2d ago

Don’t feel bad beginners, fluent speakers still don’t know how to tell their, there, and they’re apart.

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u/allnaturalfigjam 1d ago

Is it just me or do a lot of fluent English speakers use "weary" and "wary" interchangeably? I keep hearing people saying "be weary of that" and I'm starting to think I'm the crazy one.

I had a boyfriend in uni who pronounced "wander" the same as "wonder". Drove me up the wall.

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u/hhfugrr3 1d ago

How often are you meeting people who others think you need to be cautious of?

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u/Silent_Yesterday_671 1d ago

I believe you meant to say "How often are you meeting people of whom others think you need to be cautious?"

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u/hhfugrr3 1d ago

Quite possibly, but I take the view that the word "whom" is passing into history. It's still used occasionally, but I think over the coming century it'll fall out of use. If I spoke the sentence you wrote to a fellow non-posh Brit, I reckon they'd give me a damn funny look.