Teh is not The

[jason]

Nancy Baym tweeted that itouch doesn’t correct teh to the… HA, I said. That’s because teh is a word! Google ‘the’ and you get 12 billion hits, but google ‘teh’ and you get 26 million… and growing Then I looked up
Teh on Wikipedia, and I’m right. Well, I was right before, but not other people agree.

“Teh” is an internet slang neologism most frequently used as an English article, based on a common misspelling of the. A common typographical error, this typo became a part of Internet slang and subsequently developed grammatical usages distinct from the.[1] It is not common in spoken or written English outside technical or leetspeak circles, but when spoken, it is pronounced /tə/.[2]Teh is one of the words in the auto-correct lists of spellcheckers in word processing applications such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, and Corel WordPerfect. T and E are typed by the left hand on adjacent fingers in Qwerty, while the H is typed by the right, and in rapid typing, the T and E are often typed by the left hand in a drumming motion before the right can get the H in between the two. Overcompensating with the right hand can result in the misspelling hte, which is also found in auto-correct lists.

For those of you who balk and claim that English is going down the tubes (and it is, but that’s the point) don’t forget that your English sucketh as well. The new technologies of Caxton and moveable type removed the eth, ash and thorn, and I think yod (or was that wynn; I’m decades away from my Anglo Saxon studies) from our language and replaced them with TH in the first place. And you don’t have any problems with that. Right?

Go to the wikipedia page to see some letters we no longer have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_runes and can you read the first English poet’s words?

nu scylun hergan
hefaenricaes uard
metudaes maecti
end his modgidanc
uerc uuldurfadur
swe he uundra gihwaes

i.e.
Now [we] must honour
the guardian of heaven,
the might of the architect,
and his purpose,
the work of the father of glory

All those funny ways of writing… teh times teh are a changing… and none too quick for moi.

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