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?

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

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!

Do you mean equipped?

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!).

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

I wrote lead for led recently

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!

I'm so confused.

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

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

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' .

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.

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!

Pieceofpurple you have equipment to equip you to do something.

I know but it sounds like a t

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

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

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.