How to turn off the dreadful spelling correction?

[veggiop]

I am plagued with this horrible spelling correction when texting on the Android Motorola X.

Hiway becomes Hissy. Eatery becomes Watery.

Every damn sentence I have to backspace and correct. I want it off. How does one turn off this nuisance

when trying to text someone?

 

[xliderider]

Can't you "teach" your keyboard words by long pressing on your words that you want to be saved to your dictionary?

 

[igknight]

What keyboard are you using? It would be under Settings -- Language & Keyboard.

I use the Multi-touch Keyboard, there are settings that might fix that there. Not sure if the Auto-correct errors would fix the spelling as I have it off and don't have that issue, or it could be the Show Suggestions options. Might want to try both.