Tried another obvious solution (on n950, didn't really want to risk my main phone) - to downgrade the swype libraries and data files (copied from pr 1.1).

Didn't help - it doesn't even load the swype keyboard anymore.

It might be only because n950 pr 1.1 didn't have swype at all, but I'm not willing to test whether the downgrade would work on n9.

We need a free/open source keyboard with prediction based on aspell (or other) dictionaries...