Byegone or bygone?

[StripeyChina]

Which is correct, please?

(have to reply to an email from a v educated person and don't wish to make a faux pas)

I'm not the best speller but I'd say bygone.

Bygone.

Bygone.

What are you working on that it doesn’t spellcheck the incorrect one?!

Bygone is correct though.

I am texting.

Person is J Rees Mogg- alike and will no doubt have some ancient religious quote where it is 'byegone' I expect.

I am pleased that I was right suspecting bygone was correct though.

As everyone else says - bygone, it means belonging to an earlier time, or a time that has 'gone by'.

Byegone isn't in any dictionary I have seen but I assume it would be to do with goodbye or a (leg) bye in cricket if it was a word.

Hmm. Extensive Googling only shows:

The Scottish churchman Samuel Rutherford recorded that usage of the phrase in a letter during his detention in Aberdeen in 1636. In the letter he regrets the follies of his youth and acknowledges his debt to God in showing him the error of his ways:

"Pray that byegones betwixt me and my Lord may be byegones."

Yet: John Heywood in his 1562 edition of Proverbs. 'Let bygones be bygones' uses both meanings of the word 'bygones' and means, in extended form, 'let the unpleasantness between us become a thing of the past'.

I'm going with 1562 Proverbs.

AND MN. Thanks.