a colleague keeps writing "formerly" to refer to something's past state

[StealthPolarBear]

And it's right I know. But it looks so wrong. I never used to have spelling and grammar blindness but seem to have developed it. Is it possible to see something incorrect so frequently (as an adult) that your brain adapts?

[pieceofpurplesky]

Equiptment.
We are equipt ... It should not be equipment

[StealthPolarBear]

I've never seen that! And never seen 'equipt' either.
I have started getting to and too wrong myself. And sometimes (often) I miss the a postpone from its and don't care. I do care when I'm writing the possessive though and autocorrect puts one in for me!

[MargotLovedTom]

Do you mean equipped?

[MargotLovedTom]

Autocorrect has buggered up your 'apostrophe' .

I find myself writing loose for lose . I think it's because the 'oo' sound is longer in lose than it is in loose (the way I say it anyway!).

[StealthPolarBear]

Thankfully it is different enough to be obviously autocorrect !! In my mind it should end in y. Apostrophy.

[frontalcortexburnout]

I wrote lead for led recently

[QuimReaper]

Good point Margot that is the only typo my very pedantic boss ever makes, I'm sure you're right about that being why - I always wonder!

[Scarydinosaurs]

I'm so confused.

Formerly is right, isn't it? Formally is the adverb of formal?

[MargotLovedTom]

Yes, it is right, but SPB keeps thinking it's wrong when she actually knows it's right.

[MargotLovedTom]

I think it's quite a common one Quim - in fact, the more I look at 'lose', the more it looks like it should be pronounced 'lows' .

[Scarydinosaurs]

Oh phew. I started to doubt myself. I stared at the thread title for ages trying to figure it out. And then couldn't work out the first few posts.

Formerly. Formally.

[RedCrimson]

DH was at DS's football tournament on the weekend, I text to ask how it was going and he replied:

"One 1 lost 1"

Totally confused me until I realised one was meant to be won!
He also gets role and roll mixed up. Asking what he'd like for lunch and he texts "just a ham role" grrrrr!!! He teaches foundation degree ffs! Got an A* at GCSE English and an A in A-Level English!

[MargotLovedTom]

Pieceofpurple you have equipment to equip you to do something.

[pieceofpurplesky]

I know but it sounds like a t

[HairySubject]

I keep getting confused with past and passed. I had to ask the other day in work.

[GiddyOnZackHunt]

Accommodation. Written correctly there are too many 'M"s in it

[EBearhug]

I have had a couple of times lately where I have found myself typing the wrong type of there/their/they're for the context. I've so far always caught it before others get to see it, but I don't understand why it's happening in the first place.