[Android Central Question]

my wife and daughters all have non-typical spellings for their names.

I often want to include their names in the body of a text. but my s8 ALWAYS gets the spelling wrong. I've put them in with phonetic names and while that may help with commands like sending a text or call to the correct person, it doesn't help at all with the typing of the name in the body of a text. this seems like a crazy common problem. am I missing something?

I see one half hearted answer on this site for an old S5. that apparently has something called a "personal Dictionary", I don't have that on the S8.