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

[SerfTerf]

What IS autocorrect's bloody problem?

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

Who programmes these things?

Mine replaces 'tomorrow' with 'tintype'.

Fucking TINTYPE!

In which world are you more likely to mean tintype than tomorrow?!

My friend's old phone used to autocorrect 'OK' to 'Oklahoma' for some odd reason.

I once sent a text to a rather nice male teacher explaining I wouldn't be around the next day as I was invigilating an exam.

What I actually sent was "I am invigorating in the morning"

DH and I celebrated Wobs for years.
That was an old Samsung's interpretation of Xmas. We still call it Wobs sometimes.
I've taught my iPhone to say bolloxed but ducking is still a problem.

My friend was texting about how she was "sharing her excrement" the other day. She obviously meant excitement. I made the same point - who uses the word excrement more frequently than excitement!?

My old phone autocorrected DH's name to Greed. He wasn't impressed but I thought it was hilarious.

Rwanda the dream sheep!!! Actually snorting at that!

There's a theory that it autocorrects to brace as "brave" has bad connotations for Native Americans.

I get Thus instead of this.... YES mine inserts OLDE WORLDE ENGLISH who the Fuck says Thus....

A friend I've since lost touch with was nicknamed 'Pops' for years because her autocorrect insisted that when she typed "Rosanna" she must mean "popcona".

"train guard" autocorrected to "train hairdresser" which made the story a bit more interesting.

I've since realised a long train journey is a great time to get a trim - business opportunity for someone!

I have turned off my autocorrect because I would end up smashing my stupid phone with a hammer.

Imagine if in real life you autocorrected. That would leave me smashing my stupid phone with a hammock.

Autocorrect is ducking bast ardent. At least that's what it changes the thing I obviously tried to type to. I have taught it to say dick, dicks, and various arse-based insults.

Purple that is absolutely brilliant!

I wish mine would learn that I never use the word ducking.

Haha me too Wonko! 😂

Coming soon... Teacher of the Dead (written by Neil Gaiman, directed by Tim Burton)

Anyone remember a thread where the OP's autocorrect somehow managed to change "birds" to "emanuels"? I was never sure whether I believed that one, but given some of the examples here it is a distinct possibility.

When/if I ever get a smart phone the first thing I'm doing with it is turning off them things. Used to have predictive text on my non-smart phone but it freaked me out and I spent more time deleting than typing. As for autocorrect, I refuse to believe a machine knows better than I do what I meant to say.

Hmm, jesus or satan... Do the parents have a fave child, op, and if so which and why? Glorious autocorrect there

And the dream sheep named Rwanda....

*Roast potatoes cooked in dick fat
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Brilliant

I hate autocorrect too. I'm also finding that ill gets corrected to I'll. And sometimes there's no rhyme nor reason as to how it changed what I've typed. The most annoying thing is that sometimes I don't notice it until after I've posted. Grrrr.

silverlace I have also told someone I was invigorating, not invigilating, in the morning, very recently in fact.

Also mine changes annoying to Ann, then does it AGAIN when I delete and retype and THEN it leaves the capital letter there so I have to change to lower case because otherwise I type Annoying. Which Annoys me as it's not at the beginning of a sentence, or a proper noun.

When I type "arse", my phone changes it to "assessment", every single time. Even though I must have changed it about 20 times now, it still hasn't learned!

When I type "arse", my phone changes it to "assessment", every single time. Even though I must have changed it about 20 times now, it still hasn't learned!