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

[surje.livejournal.com]

Don't forget that every time you type in a word, and it can't find it, and you choose "Spell" from the menu, and then put it in using multitap, then it gets added to the user dictionary, and its frequency will presumably be set about half way up the list for that number.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Depends on the phone. Mine (Nokia 7110e) doesn't do that, it adds the word to the end of the list and never changes the order that words are suggested. But then it is a fairly old phone.

[surje.livejournal.com]

ah ok. i didn't know much about older phones, and almost added a caveat to that effect. what i said is true of the Nokia 7650 and 3650.