To think "brace" is a more commonly used word than "brace"?

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What IS autocorrect's bloody problem?

Also "in it" is something it ALWAYS tries to change to "innit" (!)

Who programmes these things?

Oh dear

My old phone used to autocorrect cock to anal (it was in the days of having letters assigned to numbers and they used the same keys).

Which was all well and good, except our local was called the Cock Inn, usually shortened to the Cock of course. Asking someone if they were going to be down the Cock that night became quite something!

I'm teasing. The way it came out made me laugh @MissWilmottsGhost

Mine autocorrects please to Poussey if I'm not watching carefully. I've never deliberately typed that, so WTF?

Also, does anyone else have this problem only on mumsnet; if you click on a word that you've already typed in this reply box, you don't get a list of alternative words. You only get them as you type. I'm using Swype on Android. Doesn't happen on any other site or text box.

Oh I heard that the man who invented predictive text has died. His fun reel will be helm on Furry.

My autocorrect prefers "wind" to "wine".

"I'm on my way over. I've got wind."

Lovely.

I don't need autocorrect to make a tit of myself

I'm on my way over. I've got wind

Made me chuckle out loud

Actually I don't seem to use brace or brace.

I usually use a 3rd option, namely brace.

So I'd vote for brace.

OP, check out www.damnyouautocorrect.com if you don't know it already

I sent a text to my son saying "speak later, just fishing up dads dinner", we do have a garden pond full of goldfish.

My pone updated a few weeks ago. It now autocorrects the names of my 2 children to words that I don't think are even words. And despite the fact I use their actual names all the time, it hasn't cottoned on and still insists on changing them.

Mine once autocorrected a word to 3sum - cannot remember what the word was now but in my world whatever it was would be used a whole lot more than 3sum! (Yes I am a very boring person.... )

Ducking drives me mad (and now I've actually used it for once my phone will default to it forever more)

I'll us another, although I'll concede I use I'll more than ill.

why not just turn auto-correct off?

I always have both auto correct and predictive text turned off. I suspect whoever invented auto correct did it to for the laughs.

Mine can't appear to learn 'dickhead' which given how much I use it (sorry, dog) is irritating.

My pet hate though is when it changes something, I go back and change it back and then it changes it AGAIN.

Come on, phone. You know when there's a traffic jam, you can tell me my bank balance, every mathematical equation known to man, every language under the sun - but you can't concede you might be wrong?

The thing I love about autocorrect is when it suggests the next word when you use a common name, so if you type "Helen" it says "Keller" and after "Anna" it suggests "Wintour" because you are so much more likely to be typing about a random c-list celeb or obscure historical figure than your own sister or whatever. Oh and mine likes to insert the word "crash" every time you write "plane" which is nice and morbid of it.

Its a Passion on the arse, anyone?

This it what I sent when i meant to say pain in the arse while I was in ikea. Was screenshot and posted on fb just for kicks by ex-dmil

My autocorrect on this phone is actually stupid and autocorrects to words that don't even exist. I've discovered you can delete suggested autocorrects before it does it automatically so slowly training my phone.

My gripe is 'lovely' becoming 'lonely' - I call everyone 'lovely' or 'my lovely' so quite often my texts begin "Hi lonely, how are you?"

otter that drives me insane! Correct a word and it goes back to the typo.
Also, when it changes a perfectly legitimate word to another perfectly legitimate word, just not the one I wanted. Like one to saw as an example. Makes no sense.

My phone used to correct maybe to Mugabe

...I still cringe to my autocorrect mishap. I sent a letter regarding a horrific incident only to realise after said letter was sent horrific had been autocorrected and replaced with orifice!!!!

Yip orifice :(

the one I really don't get is it always puts mum as nun.

How many people ever type the word nun?

I once text a friend to tell her I was shopping in Wilkinsons Wollongongs

wheres does auto correct even find these words?

forever more Wilkinsons will now be known as Wollongongs lol