Are dictionaries included in software (e.g. keyboard typing/autocorrect) known to include names of mythological figures, if so how many and from what pantheons?
Using gboard with UK layout here’s me typing a bunch I can remember, it autocorrected all of them. Would be interesting to see the dictionary as a list.
Zeus Herodias Herodotus Aphrodite Pegasus Nike - Greek
Mars Romulus Remus Bacchus - Roman
Valhalla Thor Odin Ragnarok Woden - Norse …
Kali Vishnu Brahma
Zeus herodias (←didn’t show up) Herodotus Aphrodite Pegasus Nike Mars Romulus Remus Bacchus Valhalla Thor Odin ragnarok (←didn’t show up) woden (←didn’t show up) Kali Vishnu Brahma
Aus layout AOSP keyboard.
Woden is “Odin” in English (which did autocorrect for me).
If they’re well-known in the culture, yes. You can test by typing Zeus in lowercase. My iPhone autocorrected it to a proper name. But this is a figure known worldwide-ish and has been in Western culture for thousands of years. There’s also a historical element.
