Why the iPhone keyboard inserts 'ducking' into your texts, according to the person who designed it (AAPL)

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• A common iPhone autocorrect error replaces the "f word" with a word describing an aquatic bird. 
• We spoke to the iPhone keyboard's original designer about why it happens. 

You may be part of the majority of Americans who don't use the "f word" in daily life.

But the rest of us use profanity to emphasize what we're saying and typing, and we get annoyed when our "ducking" phone autocorrects the swear word into something we didn't mean to type. 

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