T9 Text Input: Dangerous Ambiguities

My phone has a wonderful feature called T9: when sending text messages, I needn’t press 2 once for “a”, twice for “b”, thrice for “c”, etc., but only once—most words are uniquely specified by the number-to-letter mapping.

Some, however, are not. Here are those that I find amusing. If you are amused by one that I haven’t listed here, please feel free to contact me.

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5425	kick	lick	Karate class was amazing: we worked on licking an attacker’s knees!
5477	kiss	lips	Coincidence?
6325	meal	neck	Perhaps I’ve been watching too much Buffy?
7687	pour	soup	But watch out for splashing.