It's ill, not I'll, when you're talking about health ...

[OlaRapaceFru]

... I can't believe the number of threads I've seen recently where a poster has referred to someone being I'll when they're unwell. (Yes, I accept that some of them are probably attributable to DYOC - but not all of them.)

And.Breathe.

My iPod touch changes its into it's. Had to go back and make the "its" not be an "it's" or you would all have thought I was mad.

It also feels I need the word Reading rather than reading. I do more reading than going to Reading.

Indeed, AgentP, you are correct, I got it wrong.
And, SleepyF, I did say that I thought most of it was down to auto correct.

Of course, Sauvignon. Mildly irritated sums it up.
Someone else referred to me as being 'ridiculously irate'.

plutocrap I meant when people put 'I need to loose 3lbs this week' or similar. I'd seen it loads on here and then a friend put it in a facebook status and commented afterwards 'damn ac'.

I'm on my iPad! It does autocorrect to I'll!

Luckily I can type "im on my ipad! It does autocorect to i'll" and still look normal even though I have missed out letters and stuff!

My iPad turns here into gereldinetheluckygoat. I'll is the least if my worries.

IPad. I have a theory that iPads have special built in stealth boast typos. Hell becomes He'll too.

For all these real words, "autocorrect" seems to be a misnomer; it's probably more accurate to call it interruptions by an ignorant knowitall predictive text.

Apart from my own typo last night (hoist by my own petard? ), I've been thinking about this today and I have to say I was genuinely surprised that autocorrect will change such simple words as 'ill' to 'I'll' and 'hell' to 'he'll, although this is obviously one of its eccentricities.

So, another question. Do you have the option to turn off autocorrect if you don't want it? If so, do you still have a spell check option? I don't mean this as a criticism of people who use autocorrect, or not, I'm just interested how it works on an iPad or iPhone?

As you are typing there is a little x when the iphone is suggesting an auto-correct so beside he'll(x) when you type hell, so if you are paying attention you can correct auto-correct.

Hah... You don't own an iPhone or iPad then?! It's an infuriating autocorrect!

Didn't read all the other replies before I posted.

The trouble is the little x thing appears constantly as it starts to guess at longer words .

I double check if I am sending emails. But I am not really going to spell check every word I post on here because this is a question of chatting and posting my thoughts. It doesn't matter to me.
If my posts bother people because of a stray word I simply don't care.

I think it changes ill to I'll as it's American. Americans say sick not ill I imagine? So I'll would be the most used word of the two?

I'm reluctant to turn autocorrect off as it is useful for a lot of the time, for example I typed im and it autocorrected to I'm and dont corrects to don't

But it is annoying when you get I'll he'll and it's when you don't want the apostrophe

Well, at least we are in pedants' corner.

Of course a true pedant would go back and check over everything they had read.

Personally I can tell the difference between a full-keyboard typo, a smartphone/tablet autocorrect, and a true misspelling at 20 paces.

Yikes.
I just clicked on this because it was in active convos. I don't belong here.

Except to say that I hate 'quite unique'

I don't understand this, though my phone does the same. Autocorrect should be correcting incorrectly spelt words surely? So if a word is a word, why does it feel (or should that be fee'l?) the need to change it to another word?
Correcting teh to the is fine. Correcting ill to I'll is not. We need an MN campaign.

Do you all have iPhones then?

If you have Android phones I can strongly recommend this keyboard, which gives autocorrects based on what you normally write and the context of the sentence. e.g. I am ill would stay as ill, I think ill would be changed to I'll.

(I just tried it and those sentences do actually work - for me at least)

Yes, just to confirm, I have neither an iPad nor an iPhone, so I'm not familiar with 'their' auto correct.

Love your comment, Stealth : "Correcting teh to the is fine. Correcting ill to I'll is not. We need an MN campaign." I dare you to start one