9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising presenting candidate words associated with the input text from at least one of the core lexicon and the extended lexicon, for selection by the user.
8. A word recognition method for recognizing an input text entered via a shorthand-on-keyboard interface, the method comprising: storing commonly used words on a core lexicon, wherein the commonly used words were selected for the core lexicon based on an associated frequency of use value for each word being above a pre-determined threshold, and wherein the frequency of use values are not based on candidate selections by the user; storing at least one word not contained in the core lexicon in an extended lexicon; recognizing, via one or more processors, words associated with the input text; outputting, via the one or more processors, an output word associated with the input text from the core lexicon; and admitting, via the one or more processors, a candidate word associated with the input text, from the extended lexicon to the core lexicon, upon a first selection of the candidate word by a user, to create an augmented core lexicon.