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Android app gets with the Jubilee spirit and makes keyboard write texts like one should

Android app gets with the Jubilee spirit and makes keyboard write texts like one should

By Eddie Wrenn

PUBLISHED: 10:37 EST, 1 June 2012 | UPDATED: 11:15 EST, 1 June 2012

A British tech company has got in on the Jubilee by bringing out an Android keyboard which converts your text messages into the pure Queen's language.

Many Android fans will need little introduction to SwiftKey, a free replacement keyboard for Android phones which scans your emails, texts and Facebook messages to pick up your typical speech patterns to speed up your texting.

But with a little tweak to the app, users can give the pure Queen's parlance, after the software company imported all the her Majesty's speeches - every one since 1952 - so that the software could learn the Queen's most distinctive words and turns of phrases.

The Queen's language is now one of the selectable options in SwiftKey - meaning one can speak like a Royal

While analysing the Queen's speech patterns, the SwiftKey advisers noted some distinct mannerisms:

Contrary to popular belief, the Queen uses 'I' nearly six times more than 'One'
'My Government will is the most common phrase
The Queen never uses colloquial abbreviations - and rarely uses contractions. 'It's' is used just nine times, 'it is' is used 208 times
'Do not' is used three times as many times as 'don't'
'Can't', 'won't' and 'weren't' are not used once.

Top 10 phrases used by the Queen:

1.Â Â Â Â 'My Government will' - 217 times
2.Â Â Â Â 'Men and women'- 144 times
3.Â Â Â Â 'The United Kingdom'- 139 times
4.Â Â Â Â 'Prince Philip and'- 135 times
5.Â Â Â Â 'Will continue to'- 123 times
6.Â Â Â Â 'Be introduced to' - 119 times
7.Â Â Â Â 'Will be introduced' - 118 times
8.Â Â Â Â 'It is easy' - 113 times
9.Â Â Â Â 'The Commonwealth' - 111 times
10.Â Â 'Philip and I' - 101 times

SwiftKeyâ€™s Head of Language, Dr. Caroline Gasperin said: 'Recently there's been a lot of focus on the Kingâ€™s Speech, so we thought it was only fair to devote attention to Queen Elizabeth II, who has after all now reigned for 45 years longer than her father.

'The research we conducted meant combing through the words the Queen has used in her speeches and building a personalised language model.

'Our software learns how individuals type over time, which means it can accurately predict what theyâ€™re likely to say next.'

The top 10 most used word sequences across Her Majestyâ€™s digitised archives reveal her favourite topics are husband Prince Philip, the Government and her subjects.

The Queenâ€™s language also reveals that she has an optimistic frame of mind with 'confident', 'delighted', 'glad' and 'pleased' uttered 125 times more than her famous 'annus horribilis', expressed just once in her 1992 address following the Windsor Castle fire and revelations about her sonsâ€™ private lives.

Swiftkey is available on the Anroid Market.