Back in the olden days (I’m talking ancient times! With typewriters!), we writers had crusty old editors who would bash our heads if they found us using “sheered” instead of “sheared”.
Ah well, those days are gone. But hey, at least I still have my teeth... :-)
Now all the crusty old editors have been put out to pasture (or sent to Jersey) and replaced by computers with Spell Checker functions.
Now the righters trust they're spell chequer two ketch awl there mistakes.
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