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TheChance t1_j5u5jty wrote

After years hanging out in LGBT forums correcting my spellchecker, my phone decided I always mean to spell ‘dike’ the other way. Fortunately, at some point I managed to get it to correct to the tamer ‘duke,’ but that’s still wildly incorrect, and it’s not a word I use often enough to remember ahead of pressing send.

Also, I think this one’s about over, but if you’ve got a significant other or an ex named Andrew or Andrea, there were a few years where it was really dicey typing “and,” which is one of those words you just fly over.

All of this is leaving aside homophones where you got it right and the phone enwrongified you.

It’s a good thing for New Orleans they’ve got all those slur Andrew levies!

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iProcrastinate-Air t1_j5u8jr2 wrote

google predictive typing allows you to scrub autocorrected learned words by way of tap and hold on the word when it comes up above the keyboard. there should be something similar for iOS too - give it a try

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TheChance t1_j5uj2n2 wrote

Well, shit, now I can’t trigger dike/duke, must be too recent. Thanks for the tip, now I just need to wait for a conversation about flood protection to crop up

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