Weary of the PRI
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Mexico Election: Mexican Immigrants Shocked, Weary of PRI Victory
The word weary in this Latino Fox News headline should have been wary, shouldn't it? There hasn't been time yet for anyone to be weary of the PRI this time around.
The mistake is not an eggcorn, I think, but a malapropism: The writer simply picked the wrong word from the lexicon, in consequence of not knowing the two adjectives well enough to choose between them, just like Sheridan's famous character Mrs Malaprop saying "a nice derangement of epitaphs" for "a nice arrangement of epigrams" in The Rivals.)