odd dictionary

[venta]

Does anyone know what criteria must be met for a word to be included in a mobile phone's default predictive-text dictionary?

My phone (which is Sony Ericsson) seems to have an odd selection... today it didn't know 'inauspicious' - which didn't surprise me. It also didn't know 'bastard', but did know 'conjure' - both of which surprised me.

Comments

[triskellian]

It's also interesting which order they suggest words in (cos it's not necessarily alphabetical).

Someone I saw at the weekend complained that her phone suggested 'nun' before the presumably more-common-in-texting 'mum'.

The same day, I received a message with 'I would have you sinned you about that' in it ;-)

[surje.livejournal.com]

For a virgin phone, the order is predetermined in the database, presumably from some published analysis of words (I don't know what that is). However, every time you commit the text for a word in any editor on the phone, it should update the frequency list, moving your word presumably about a third of a place higher in the list or a third of the way up the list (if you write a word three times it gets the message).