[MauranKilom]

> I don't remember ever making this mistake (but do remember plenty others to make up for it), and can't imagine myself doing it. Yet it happens to native speakers all the time.

I used to think that, too. But now my fingers just type the words as I hear them spoken in my mind, and that seems to occasionally produce homophones.

Kinda fascinating what this says about our language processing, to be honest!