# This ought to be contentious: teh "TEH"

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 21, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-ought-to-be-contentious-teh-teh/434331 "2008-01-21T02:22:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-ought-to-be-contentious-teh-teh/434331/21 "2008-01-21T21:15:30Z")

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Sadly, I do use “teh” when making fun of people. In general, I am a Nazi about my spelling and grammar and double- and triple-check before hitting the “send” button. This is because I truly am dyslexic and if I didn’t proofread my stuff religiously, it would be completely incoherent to most people. My daughter and I have a running joke whereby we do the idiot-speak when we chat with each other – in fact, both of our computers have an icon for “teh intarwebs” that looks suspiciously like IE. I can’t help it, it makes me giggle too. FWIW, my daughter and I also call it “teh intarwebs” in spoken word. It’s our in-joke, but sadly, many of her friends (high school kids) have picked it up from her and it is becoming quite a common thing to hear around here.

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**Author:** ![Grey\_area](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grey\_area](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_area)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-ought-to-be-contentious-teh-teh/434331/22 "2008-01-21T22:29:35Z")

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QWERTY fails us once again.

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**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-ought-to-be-contentious-teh-teh/434331/23 "2008-01-22T03:12:20Z")

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[QUOTE=Taber]  
But I can still laugh at the internet being a series of tubes, right?  
[/QUOTE]

I, personally, hope that never ceases to be funny.

(And yes, “teh” is past its moment. I had to get my husband to stop using it sometime last year. He picked it up from a friend. Egads, it was annoying.)

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-ought-to-be-contentious-teh-teh/434331/24 "2008-01-22T03:37:52Z")

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[QUOTE=adam yax]  
Shouldn’t that be “just because that’s teh way tehy work”?  
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Fingers are funny things. tehy comes out about 20% of teh time, and they the other 80. But for teh, it’s 80 & the is 20. YMMV.

FYI, the teh in teh 2nd sentence was 100% natural; as were tehse last two. And teh these in the last sentence. DAMN IT! I gotta quit doing that.  
No proofings were used in teh making of this post.

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