Text substitution does not work

I cannot make the text substitution feature to work. Specifically, the only substitution that is being done, is the one for "On my way!" which was there by default. Anything else I add is simply ignored. This happens in all applications (TextEdit, Mail, etc). Yes, I have made sure that all the right boxes have been ticked, etc. Any help will be appreciated. I run 10.9.4.

If it works in new user accounts, then most likely the hidden .GlobalPreferences.plist file (a hidden one residing in /username/Library/Preferences/) is corrupted. That's where text substitutions are stroed. The simplest thing to do is delete the borked user account, saving its data in a disk image, recreate the account, using the same username/password combination, logging into it, mounting the saved data disk image, and replace the items in the new account with the saved ones.
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