the prefix object displayed at the text input location 69 i e the prefix object u201c c u201d in the current embodiment the functional portion 46 allows for example the user to scroll to view additional prefix objects should the number of prefix objects returned by the disambiguation application exceed the display space available in the variant component 72 in the current embodiment the number of actuations detected by the processor 16 e g after a delimited input is compared to a first threshold value if the number of actuations detected is less than the first threshold the predictive text application is not executed by the processor 16 however if the number of actuations detected is greater than or equal to the first threshold the predictive text application may be executed by the processor 16 in the current embodiment for example the first threshold is set at two as seen in fig3 because only one input member actuation has thus far been detected i e the actuation of the key 28 having linguistic elements lt c gt and lt v gt disposed thereon after the last delimited input e g the keystroke sequence lt m gt lt y gt lt space gt the predictive text application is not executed by the processor 16 referring now to fig4 the user has actuated the key 28 having the linguistic elements lt a gt and lt s gt disposed thereon as a result the disambiguation application 22 generates the prefix object u201c ca u201d at the default portion 76 and the prefix objects u201c va u201d u201c cs u201d and u201c vs u201d at the variant portion 80 the prefix object u201c ca u201d is also provided as an output at the text input location 69 because the number of input member.