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Right on Q

I use predictive text on my cellphone. When I type the letter “q” I get suggestions, all of which start with “qu”. When I then press “u”, I get different suggestions. Why? I realise it’s quite trivial, but I’d still love to know the answer.

• When you type the letter “q”, some words are suggested by the phone. If one of these words was the word you wanted to type, then the phone would expect you to select that word from the list rather than keep typing.

So, when you follow by pressing the letter “u”, the phone assumes that the word you are typing hasn’t yet appeared in the list, and so it suggests some different words.

Catriona Quin, Dunblane, Perthshire, UK

Topics: Last Word

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