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Help Swype: Can't get "how's" stored in dictionary

sremick

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Jun 18, 2010
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I'm beating my head against the wall on this one.

Every time I swype "how's", it suggests "hows" and "how's" doesn't appear as an option no matter how many times I manually type it in. Also, to add to the annoyance, I cannot successfully delete the non-word "hows" which suggests it's in the stock dictionary. Why? It's not even a word, and I should be able to delete words even if they come by default if I don't ever use them.

This is so annoying. I use "how's" all the time and yet Swype is utterly useless for it. I have to manually type it every time. What a speed-bump.
 
"hows" is a word, as in, "hows and wherefores"...not that people really talk like that (anymore). But it is a word.

Swype doesn't really incorporate user-created words with punctuation into the dictionary. The easy way out of this is to swype how, lift finger, swype from the apostrophe to the s. Two steps to type how's instead of one. Not ideal but can be done.
 
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