The short and long of it

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At one time when Text Expanders or Text Expansion tools were all new, I used it quite a bit on the PC. It made outputting frequently used phrases by storing each to trigger with a shortcut of assigned letters, when followed by a blank space or hitting the Enter key. It was handy to avoid retyping often used snippets, or HTML codes or even full letters sometimes, depending on your work. Only you need to remember the matching shortcut and take care that what's assigned is not a dictionary term or someone's initials etc., to avoid accidentally inserting the unwanted. It has been a while since the habit waned away on the desktop, but was glad to find the feature on mobile phone in the Microsoft SwiftKey keyboard.

This topic came to mind when I was just recalling school days on seeing a name which sounded like my classmate's, though the face didn't correspond. In turn reminded of the poem The Priest and the Mulberry-Tree in the English syllabus.
...with a word, when the curate said "Hey,"
She put forth her mettle and gallop'd away.
Being trained to take off on hearing "Hey", the horse does the same when the priest by mistake utters it out of joy, when standing on it to reach and pluck the mulberries.

I once landed up being priest-like when thy that was set to insert "Thanking you, Yours faithfully" in formal letters appeared all of a sudden when thy was used as part of a quote elsewhere...