When mobile phone predictive text errors can end relationships

It's a modern marvel of the mobile phone industry. Predictive text has, no doubt, made it quicker and easier to communicate with those around us.

However, the very tool designed to help bring us closer together appears to be driving a wedge between some mobile phone users and their nearest and dearest.

The technology behind predictive text has become so advanced it is resulting in embarrassing miscommunication leaving users, at best, a little red-faced and, at worst, with some serious explaining to do.

The latest submissions to the DamnYouAutoCorrect website show how the simple predictive text misspelling of the words 'at Pam's' resulted in a very awkward conversation between one woman and her boyfriend.

Instead of typing 'We need to spend some time at Pam's' user 'Jenni' mistakenly texted: 'We need to spent some time apart', prompting a furious reply from her partner.

And the woman who asked a friend if she wanted 'any bleach' from the dollar store, was horrified when predictive text interpreted it as 'anal bleach'.

Modern mobile phones come with a built-in dictionary which enables them to predict what word a user wants from only a few key presses.