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Now before I start to accuse various Forumites(and some members of the Great British Public) of being pretentious and being poseurs of the highest order,can anyone explain why this has sneaked into everyday usage?


The idea of "Textspeak" was to abbreviate certain words and save time and space,that I understand.

Replacing "the" with "teh" escapes me.


Could you explain as soon as possible while I make a cup of tae...

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As a major culprit in this sort of behaviour, I'll pipe up on this..


I have no idea why I do it more often than I used to , and it irritates me as much as it does you, believe me


It's something that a 2 fingered typist like myself does when he is typing faster than ability allows. I try to correct it as often as I can but I still leave too many in


so - mea culpa

RosieH Wrote:

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> yes, is just a really common typo surely (Word

> will autocorrect but admin hasn't set up that

> facility on here yet...)


I'm a technological imbecile of the highest degree but can't buy this for a second!


Totally illogical that hundreds of times I've seen Guys "accidently" hit the 6th Middle Key instead of the 3rd Key on the left? and never do it for any other word?


Once in a while you might see adn for and or aer for are but that is obviously a typo but to regularly see this and it being a typo is odds of Billionss-to-One.:))

*Bob* Wrote:

Tony.. If Sean absolutely promises not to type 'teh' instead of 'the' - can we expect a space after on comma on your part?

Surely,that 's not too much teh ask?


Well only if you also promise "Bob" but I'm going to do my best, even if it looks silly to me.::o

giggirl Wrote:

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> Surely it's nothing more sinister than a typo.


What a thousand times by a thousand different people every day on their phones or on the Net?


How come they don't regularly transpose the 2 letters of any other everyday word like and or are ?

Dulwich_ Park_ Fairy Wrote:

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> Does anyone know when people started to get lose

> and loose mixed up?


No idea but it's one of my biggest bugbears when reading online. Perhaps people have always got them confused but didn't have the opportunity to write them publically until recently? But they're pronounced different so who knows!


I'm guilty of hitting teh instead of the occasionally too and I touch type properly for the most part. I'll usually go back and correct it unless I'm in 'stream of consciousness' mode.

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