Musings of an Anonymous Indian

I hope the readers here have used Gmail once in their life. Specifically, after they rolled out the feature of completing some of the sentences that is usually used in mails. Most would say that it is a useful tool when you are in a hurry to send an urgent email. It could also be useful in giving hints in how to write email formally, specially in giving hints to what sentences to use.

It is not recent, but I have noticed that whenever I type ‘Respected’ there is a word that is hinted to. Guess the word. It is the word that according to Gmail most people use. That is ‘sir’. Whenever I type ‘Respected’, after that I have to always type ‘Ma’am’, and that takes much more time than typing ‘sir’. Sir is just three letters word. Ma’am is four letters word with an apostrophe. While typing on desktop or laptop, it is almost similar work, except for the difference in length of word and number of letters. But when I type an email on my phone, there is and added work in typing Ma’am. I have to type Ma and then move to symbol apostrophe and then have to type am for Ma’am.

Why would Gmail do this? Why is sir predicted but not Ma’am? Do most females and women not use emails? Do they write handwritten letters? Or just text over the phone? I know that now, keypads also have that predicting words feature and we can get Ma’am if we type maam only and it can be autocorrected to Ma’am. We can get option of sir as well from the keypad options. So why does Gmail predictive feature only give the option of sir? Why only sir is shown? Why cannot the option of Ma’am given when I type Respected?