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Is it just me? (Autocorrect)

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Don’t want to get into a theological discussion here as it is not allowed in the junk drawer or the kitchen sink. But just an odd observation on my end, when you type out God…and it’s misspelled, you look for the words to correct it and the word, (God) is never there as an option on my phone. It’s always gad, gif, gif, etc. is it just me? Or have others experienced this too? I just find it odd when every other word seems to be readily available. :scratch:
 

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I have found that the autocorrect program doesn’t initially show the word I am misspelling and often “corrects” it to the wrong word, but after using it several times it seems to use that word as one of the suggestions.

I haven't used autocorrect for God, but then I don’t often misspell it, and I never rely on the predictive text to write things.
 
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George95 our long time CF techie. We worked with him back when we were on staff.
Ah, yes! I have gone down memory lane with George since returning. LOL. There are a lot of George’s and I just wasn’t sure which one you were referring to.
 
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Ah, yes! I have gone down memory lane with George since returning. LOL. There are a lot of George’s and I just wasn’t sure which one you were referring to.
Yep. I did the same. Had a blast talking with him.
 
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I’m talking about my cell phone. Not a PC.
What cell phone do you have? For both my Mac and my iPhone it doesn't autocorrect to God, for some reason. Hmmm....
 
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I had never considered it as i would have picked up the error anyway (er ... most of the time).

But out of curiosity I typed in "why do spell checkers tend to ignore "god" as a correction?" and got the following AI response.


Two pertinent paragraphs that seemed to offer some explanation were as follows -

  • Proper vs. Common Noun:
    When capitalized as "God," it functions as a proper noun, similar to a person's name. However, lowercase "god" is a common noun, a type of word that can refer to any deity, a general concept of divinity, or can be used in phrases like "playing God".

  • Contextual Awareness:
    Spell checkers are generally limited in their ability to understand context. They identify if a word exists in their dictionary but don't always grasp the nuance of whether a word should be capitalized based on the sentence's meaning.
 
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Aye poot tha linque inn beekorse thear mite bee kopeerite.

Eye Halve a Spelling Chequer​

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen,
Eye trussed two bee a joule;
The checker pours o'er every wyrd,
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Be fore a veiling chequers
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if were lacks or have a laps,
We wood bee maid to wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know faults with in my cite,
Off nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud.
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew floors are knot aloud.

Eye strike a quay and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee four two long
And eye can putt the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft ware four pea seas.
And why eye brake in two averse
By righting want too pleas.

Eye half run this poem threw it
Eye am shore your pleased two no
Its let her perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

-- Sauce unknown

A non e mouse
 
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