Fun with the iPhone spell checker
Posted January 5, 2009 
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Comments(5) Going skiing next month. So I started typing some info into the calendar in my iPhone.
I typed Donner, as in Donner Pass. The iPhone “corrected” that to Dinner.
Um, yeah, that’s appropriate.
(I’m also sick of the iPhone changing its to it’s. Its spell checker doesn’t know what it’s doing!)
Any other funny ones?
I was trying to send myself an email of the relevant portions of a conversation I had with a guy named "Ed."
The iPhone kept changing his name to "Wed."
I ended up changing the name to "Edward" and moved on.
Woah dude. I thought you were the pro skater mike-mo capaldi
you can hit the x next to the suggested word and it will ignore it
If you type four o’s "oooo" it suggests "poop"!
I am violently allergic to the idiotic iPhone spelling Nazi. Does the programmer not know the difference between "it’s" and "its"? Do they not know they are 2 separate words with very different meanings which cannot be used interchangeably? Here’s a thought: why don’t they employ someone with proper grammar to build the spell-check module.
Furthermore, not everyone speaks "American-English". In fact, I dare say only Americans speak American-English. So why then does my stupid iPhone insist on turning my colour into color, and my neighbour into neighbor? Or my magnetised into magnetized?
And why is that that it learns my misspelled words in a heart beat (clock cycle?), and continually suggests them in error, yet no matter how hard I try, I simply cannot teach it any swear words?!
I think it should be "tap to accept suggestion", not "tap to reject". I’m sick of typing away correctly, and half of what I have carefully typed gets changed to something totally wrong. It really makes my blood boil!