FC Autocorrect Problem? Help???

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I wrote a short story and pasted in in the posting box here, but when I went over everything to look for typos, I found something really strange. In the text box on the left, I had the word p o p p i e s in a sentence, spelled completely correctly, but when I looked at the post preview area on the right, it had been changed to “poopies”. Notice I could not type the intended word in here either because it would have autocorrected in the same way.

This is really bizarre, and highly inconvenient considering I use the word for the flower twice in the piece of writing, so of course it would throw off a reader who doesn’t know it’s an autocorrect feature. Can this be fixed? I really don’t want to have to spell the word in a weird way to circumvent it.

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This is an old feature-turned-bug on the site, it’s been discussed before and there have even been posts made specifically to poke fun at it.

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That’s all well and good for jokes but not for people who don’t want to put spaces between letters every time the affected word is used

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It came about as a result of trying to counter the opposite problem. People kept writing “poopies” and it kept getting auto-incorrected. This was implemented as a workaround, but it worked too well.

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You could just use a different kind of flower. Unless it specifically has to be a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family Papaveraceae.

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