Teh is an Internet slang neologism most frequently used as an English article, based on a common typographical error of "the". Teh has subsequently developed grammatical usages distinct from the. It is not common in spoken or written English outside technical or leetspeak circles, but when spoken, it is pronounced /tɛ/, /tə/, or /teɪ/.
Usage
Teh originates from the common typo of the, as might both occur and remain uncorrected when a person was typing rapidly prior to the widespread availability of autocorrect helper applications, and has become conventionalized in a variety of contexts.
In addition, it is a standard feature of leetspeak and can be used ironically or to mock someone's lack of "techie" knowledge or skills, as an insult, or to reinforce a group's elitism; cf. eye dialect.
References
- ^ Ross, Nigel (July 2006). "Writing in the Information Age". English Today. 22 (3): 39–45. doi:10.1017/S0266078406003063. S2CID 143850443.
- ^ a b LeBlanc, Tracy Rene (May 2005). "Is there a translator in teh house?": Cultural and discourse analysis of a virtual speech community on an internet message board (PDF). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-03. Retrieved 2007-07-06.
- ^ Tavosanis, Mirko (2007-01-08). "A Causal Classification of Orthography Errors in Web Texts" (PDF). IJCAI-07 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (AND-07). Hyderabad, India: International Association for Pattern Recognition. pp. 99–106. Retrieved 2007-07-06.
- ^ Blashki, Katherine; Sophie Nichol (2005). "Game Geek's Goss: Linguistic creativity in young males within an online university forum (94/\/\3 933k'5 9055oneone)". Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society. 3 (2): 77–86. Retrieved 2007-07-06.
External links
The dictionary definition of teh at Wiktionary
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