12. The handheld electronic device of claim 11 wherein the multiple-axis input device is rotatable to provide input, and wherein the operations further comprise detecting as the input from the multiple-axis input device a rotation of the multiple-axis input device a rotational distance equal to a number of times a predetermined rotational distance.
11. A handheld electronic device comprising: a processor apparatus comprising a processor and a memory having stored therein a plurality of stored words and a number of routines comprising a disambiguation routine that is executable on the processor and is structured to disambiguate ambiguous text input; an input apparatus being structured to provide input to the processor apparatus and comprising a plurality of input members that comprise a multiple-axis input device and a number of linguistic input members, at least some of the linguistic input members each having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto; an output apparatus being structured to receive output signals from the processor apparatus and comprising a display; the routines, when executed on the processor, causing the handheld electronic device to perform operations comprising: detecting an ambiguous input comprising a number of linguistic input member actuations; deriving a plurality of disambiguated interpretations of the input, at least one of the plurality of disambiguated interpretations being an orphan prefix which consists of k linguistic elements, k being the number of linguistic input member actuations, wherein the orphan prefix is different from the first k characters in each of the plurality of stored words; displaying one of the disambiguated interpretations as an output at a first location on the display; detecting an input from the multiple-axis input device; and responsive to each input from the multiple-axis input device, replacing the output at the first location on the display with a successive disambiguated interpretation from the plurality of disambiguated interpretations.