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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Comment recently posted on the tech forum Slashdot which is NGKFGGU (not generally known for good grammer usage):
“While I can understand that police are probably lairy of being photographed, because it’s probably so easy to make mistakes in police procedure that if you were to record their activities, a good lawyer could probably shoot down a large percentage of arrests and whatnot… it does not inspire confidence that a public organisation who allegedly operate inside the law, to uphold the law, should feel it necessary to use their power to conceal the detailed workings of their activities.”
It is likely that the eggcorn here is derived from combining leery (suspicious) and wary (cautious).
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