5. The handheld electronic device of claim 4 wherein the operations further comprise seeking a language object that corresponds with any delimited actuations that are subsequent to the one of the actuations.
4. A handheld electronic device comprising: a processor unit comprising a processor, an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a memory having stored therein a plurality of objects including a plurality of language objects; the input apparatus comprising a plurality of input members, at least some of the input members each having a plurality of characters assigned thereto; the memory further having stored therein a number of routines which, when executed on the processor, cause the handheld electronic device to perform operations comprising: detecting an ambiguous input comprising a number of actuations of the input members; determining that one of the actuations is an actuation of an input member having assigned thereto a symbol from among a number of predetermined symbols; employing the one of the actuations as a delimiter input to delimit the actuations that precede the one of the actuations; and seeking a language object that corresponds with the delimited actuations that precede the one of the actuations.