1. A method of enabling input on a handheld electronic device that comprises an output apparatus comprising a display, a memory having stored therein a plurality of stored words and a disambiguation routine structured to disambiguate ambiguous text input, and an input apparatus 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, the method comprising: detecting an ambiguous input comprising a number of linguistic input member actuations; deriving a plurality of disambiguated interpretations of the ambiguous 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.
1. A method of enabling input on a handheld electronic device that comprises an output apparatus comprising a display, a memory having stored therein a plurality of stored words and a disambiguation routine structured to disambiguate ambiguous text input, and an input apparatus 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, the method comprising: detecting an ambiguous input comprising a number of linguistic input member actuations; deriving a plurality of disambiguated interpretations of the ambiguous 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. 2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising outputting in a list at a second location on the display the plurality of disambiguated interpretations.