Can't reset keyboard dictionary

Hi. I'm trying to reset the iPhone 4S' iOS 5.0.1 keyboard dictionary, but the instructions all over the 'Net don't work for me. I go in to Setting > General > Reset > Reset Keyboard Dictionary and complete the process, but it doesn't seem to have an effect. For example, I often abbreviate tomorrow with tmrw and I told me phone to learn tmrw. I remember the first time I typed it, I told the phone to learn it. But after doing the keyboard reset and I type tmrw, it still recognizes it. It's supposed to NOT recognize the abbreviation after the reset.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks.

I have the same issue. Dozens of incorrect words in my dictionary and of course they are for the most common words I type. Resetting the keyboard does nothing. Resetting the entire phone does nothing. Erasing the entire phone does nothing.
Just this morning I figured out 'something' of a fix. I'm sure the issue remains where the keyboard is building up illegitimate words but my solution has given me a fresh start.
I simply added the ENGLISH UK keyboard and deleted the standard ENGLISH keyboard. I did this in:
SETTING>GENERAL>KEYBOARD>INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARDS
I then deleted the US keyboard.
This seems to have gotten rid of my problem words. Thank God. sbout (about) and sonethigb (something) were pushing me toward throwing the phone against the wall.
Looks like this has provided some level of 'fix' for me. I'm going to text very gingerly here for the first few weeks and do my best not to accidentally proceed with non-words. I figure this keyboard dictionary still will save every word that comes into it and be unable to reset so I figure I'm kicking the proverbial can down the road but hey, at least it's a fresh start...
Russo

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