Mavericks auto-corrects words before I finish typing

10.9.2, 1.8 GHz i7 mid-2011 MBA, 4GB RAM
I love using 'Correct spelling automatically' as it saves me a lot of back-pedalling when typing.
Problem is, it sometimes kicks in while I'm still typing a word. For example, I'll start typing 'found', but as soon as I've typed 'fo', Mavericks sometimes corrects it to 'of'. So by the time I've finished typing the word, I end up with 'ofund'. Usually though, I see the correction appear iOS style as I type 'fo', which then disappears as I complete the word 'found'.
Is anyone else seeing this? Does anyone have a solution?
Thanks for reading!

Checked it, 'fo' is not there. I use custom text substitutions quite heavily. I believe them to be separate from the automatic spelling corrections (like 'the' for 'teh') which don't appear in the text substitutions list.
The issue as I see it is Mavericks shouldn't change anything, correction or substitution, while typing a word. Space, return and a trackpad click are delimiters that tells Mavericks that typing of a word has finished, and the substitution/correction can be applied. In my case, corrections sometimes appear before I do any of those.
I could add 'fo' as a substitution for 'fo', but that was just one example. It seems to happen with random pre-delimiter 'errors' at random times.

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