Sad news

[Mr Fuxit]

It was announced today that the Inventor of predictive text has died. His funfair is on Sudial

[<no_spam]

That made oi larf ;-)

[Bill Wright]

Very google!

Bill

[Brian Gaff]

I assume you meant Sundial.

I've not used it for some time, it may well be predictive, but the predictions never matched what I wanted to say. Brian

[Adrian Caspersz]

Mate's other half's name is Anna. Don't type and send that on a T9 keypad unchecked, unless ye want twitching nervous types pointing cylindrical long objects at ya.

[whisky-dave]

I'm sure others have noticed certain humour sites posting replies top offic ail letters and formn with interesting spelling erros which are meant to be funny, but if you look at them it's obvious a significant number are due t o preedictive text AND OR spell checkers auto correcting, to something it t hinks you mean. I've found this problem to be annoying on something like a phone or ipad. Maybe it's worth creating a custom dictionary.

[meow2222]

anteater?

[Bill Wright]

On a related topic, two words I use a lot are analyser and analogue. I tend to abbreviate them, then when I read it through I feel I need to alter it.

Bill

[Cursitor Doom]

British English spelling.... American English-set spell-checker? Are you a radio ham, perchance?

[Vir Campestris]

My phone thinks she's called Coma. Anna is before bomb...

Andy

[spuorgelgoog]

to what - anal?

Owain

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Hog sorbet toad heroic thang.