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Autocorrect is a lifesaver but also drives me crazy -- suggestions?

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Hi all -- I have been experiencing a really, really annoying thing with autocorrect. I don't want to disable it because it's so practical. Does anyone have suggestions? Here's the issue:

Every time I type a word that is not in the phone’s dictionary, one of these scenarios happens literally 100% of the time.
1. If I make an honest typo and the autocorrect fixes it, when I go back to the word (maybe to add in something or anything else, as long as I touch in the vicinity of the autocorrected word), my phone pops up the original, typo’d word I put in. E.g. if I type “teh dogs are happy” and it is autocorrected to “the dogs are happy” — if I decide to make it “the tiny dogs are happy,” a pop-up of “teh” shows up if I press nearby to add the new word.
2. If I intentionally type a word not in the dictionary and the autocorrect fixed it, when I go back to the word to change it back to the one I originally intended, no pop-up shows up. So if, for example, I type “my cat mo is cute,” it will be changed to “my cat no is cute.” (Note that I even have “mo” added in the keyboard shortcuts dictionary, but to no avail.) When I go back to alter it, nothing shows up. So I have to do the thing where I hold down my finger between the “n” and the “o,” then backspace and change the “n” to “m,” and hope that autocorrect doesn’t change it again.

This odd thing happens literally every single time I type a word not in the dictionary. If it was an unintentional error, the pop-up always shows up with the original misspelling (even if I write “teh,” backspace it all, and change it to “the,” the pop-up with “teh” still shows up). BUT if I intentionally write a word not in the dictionary, autocorrect changes it and intentionally makes it as hard as possible for me to revert it back to the original form (no pop-up, sometimes RE-“correcting” it after I revert it…).

Does this happen to anyone else? Is there any possible solution for this? I have had two iPhones and it has happened on both of them, before and with iOS 7.

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