Strange gmail behaviour with ipad app

Kittenonthekeys

I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this very odd and annoying issue with gmail and the ipad that began about 6 months ago?
When using the ipad Mail app, it will randomly 'pair' unrelated subjects and contacts together in a single email header,
eg Fred & Ginger Campbell
even though the subjects and individual email addressed are totally unconnected, eg (and I've just made these up, so I hope they aren't real addresses!)

FredBloggs@blablamail
and
ginger.campbell25@sillymail.com

they are nothing to do with each other, don't share the same email address and as I never cc or bcc any of my emails, I've no idea how this can happen or what to do about it.
It only happens with the ipad app, and my concern is that maybe emails are being automatically copied in to other contacts without my knowledge?
I've tried searching for the problem online, but I seem to be the only one. I also tried the settings but can't find anything unusual there.
By the way, it doesn't do it with every email, only some; it seems to be completely random.
Can anyone shed any light please?

WTFH

Could be predictive text - the app is putting in data based on what you've typed before, so you put in fred then it interprets that as fredbloggs@blabla. If you wrote "fred is a ging" it might change that to fredbloggs@blabla is a ginger.campbell@sillymilly...
Check the autocorrect/predictive text.

Kittenonthekeys

WTFH wrote: »

Could be predictive text - the app is putting in data based on what you've typed before, so you put in fred then it interprets that as fredbloggs@blabla. If you wrote "fred is a ging" it might change that to fredbloggs@blabla is a ginger.campbell@sillymilly...
Check the autocorrect/predictive text.

Thanks - that's an interesting thought, it hadn't occurred to me it might be that.
I could try turning off predictive text for a while to see if it stops happening.
It still seems odd to be randomly pairing unconnected contacts in one email header.
As long as it doesn't decide to copy my emails to all and sundry in my list, I can probably live with it, even though it looks very confusing when I'm trying to sort out my emails and I don't like it at all.