Autocorrecting my way to poetry

It used to be that I only encountered autocorrect at work, when I sometimes had to use Microsoft Word. Irritating, but infrequent. I didn't use predictive text on my phone, and I was still on the basic version of my web-based email service (and I tend to write these posts, and many other pieces of writing, in Vim. If I want to get WYSIWYG I go for LibreOffice and so far that hasn't forced any autocorrect facility on me). Not any longer, however, and it's providing an ongoing source of fascination.

What is the postcow that my phone's predictive text keeps insisting I put letters in? Or perhaps the more relevant question would be where is it? Is there somewhere in the world where it makes more sense than a postbox or is it the result of mischievous programmers? When I try to refer to someone as nosy, is the change to norw an attempt to steer me away from being unkind, or does it assume I'm trying to say Norwegian and just haven't got to the end of it yet? I'm imagining Jesusel, which is the phone's replacement for the more mundane kestrel, as some kind of avenging angel, but really the bird of prey is by far the more frequent winged visitor to my neighbourhood.

I can't believe they left me out of the dictionary

The word marmalade baffled my phone completely and it gave me one of its frequent '?spell' messages. As well as being an item I might conceivably want to ask OneMonkey to pick up from the shop while he's out, Marmalade is the everyday name of our cat so it comes up in conversation a lot and I had to programme it in. Similarly, for pottering (as in around town, or in the garden) its only suggestion was routering. The stored dictionary clearly isn't on British English.

We've had a tablet computer for a while now, handy for web-browsing and music but not much else. On there, I'm forced to use the allegedly advanced version of the email software, which includes it trying to give me three words I might be struggling to type. Since I would be happier if keyboards were generally like the ZX Spectrum's tactile loveliness, I don't get on well with touch screens and I'm all for shortcuts to save me typing each individual letter. However, when it doesn't suggest David even when I've typed Davi so far, and at every instance of Christmas it tries to get me to use Christian instead, it's not much help. I do seem to have taught it OneMonkey, however (don't ask me how) which it now proffers at the most innappropriate moments.

I had an impulse to try poetry using the tablet's email suggestions, selecting the one in the middle of the three (which I assume is the one it considers most likely) every time I began to type the next word or, even better, when it suggested a follow-on word immediately. Here's what happened when I tried I wandered lonely as a cloud (by typing on successive lines I, W, L, A, A C then choosing the middle of the 3 words till I'd had enough):

In the first time to the first time to the first time With the first time to the first time Line of the first time And I am not the first A copy of the first

A writer could have a lot of fun with that...