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[edit] history

Teh used to redirect to to a dubiously useful page Alternative spellings of "the", but the "teh" section was wonderful. Unfortunately, the deletion vote did not take into account the possibility of just extracting the useful section. I have recreated it here, based on a Wikipedia mirror. Let's research this page and find sources rather than deleting useful content, m'kay? -- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 14:27, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

thanks! teh word teh is teh best! Mathmo Talk 04:40, 2 January 2007 (UTC)


History/talk needs restoration -- User:Alucardracula

Looks like that's been done. -- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 06:14, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] stupid

This a pretty stupid thing to have an encyclopedia article about if you ask me -- User:67.67.14.160

Well, it serves a purpose. The word is an active subject of conversation and is used in a very conscious, almost post-modern sense. It has an unusual history, in being a typo that is used intentionally. It acts as a shibboleth of sorts, marking the user as a member of the online/gaming/IM community. Additionally, it occupies several fairly well-defined but unusual parts of speech. -- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 06:14, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
It is also a foriegn word, Indonesian for 'Tea'. Because of this, I believe it should be kept seperate. But, it will most likely need expanding for it to be satisfactory. YazzaMatazza 14:55, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I was actually curious about what "teh" was about and did a google search that directed me to this very useful article. Now I understand.SHJohnson 23:20, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] spanish

This might not be a big deal, but the example from the spanish is very awkward. It should be "yo soy el mejor," but lo is used in other cases like "eso fue lo mejor" etc. I mean, I certainly got the point, but it was a bit grating since I'm bilingual. -- User:bdieseldorff It is not stupid. It is just less used. Please respect its creator. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.100.106.215 (talk) 07:39, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Ha, that would be funny if this article had translations... Bob the Wikipedian (talk) 13:19, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] purpose

How does an article on the mispelling of a word serve a purpose? If this is the kind of things Wikipedia wants articles about, it shouldn't bill itself as an encyclopedia.

Because -- as the article and this talk page both discuss -- it has grown into more than a misspelling and is now a meme.
Wikipedia does not necessarily "want" each article that is created. It also does not require that you read every article, nor is it even necessary that you approve of every article. You may exercise a feature known as "not reading articles that don't interest you" at your own discretion. Posting to the talk page of every article that baffles you is also strictly optional.--NapoliRoma 02:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
What a cocky douchebag... I agree with unsigned (however inarticulate his comment may have been.) This page is pointless. --Bri 22:07, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for that insult. If you ask me, "teh" is an extant and widespread concept. Unlike the other entries on the now-gone Alternative spellings of "the" page, "teh" has a defined and well-understood meaning separate from its typo origins. Further, it has anomalous grammatical properties that this article explains in detail and well. While I'm at it, I'm disputing the merge suggestion, since it's is based on the assumption that this has no meaning beyond a typo - which the article debunks - AND the internet slang article has summaries and main article links for its the larger topics, such as this one. --Kizor 15:47, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
I disagree entirely. Aside from one single reference to Teh being the indonesian word for "tea", there is nothing of any worth that wouldn't be better suited to being in the Internet slang article under the already existent heading of typos. Teh is still not recognized as a real word or as slang as far as I am aware, yet somehow it merits a Wikipedia article because some "leet haxor" thinks that he's "teh r0xx0r" or some BS like that. I suggest this article be merged to a more appropriate one, per WP:BOLD. -- KirinX 16:07, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Let me explain what's wrong with your argument, KriniX:
  1. Teh is not used as a typo.
  2. You're misquoting WP:BOLD, which is about updatating pages. You're looking for WP:MERGE, which is across the road.
  3. The moment you mentioned "leet haxor" and "teh r0xx0r", you failed it due to use of an ad hominen argument.
  4. Actually, this would be better served if a summary section of this article and a {{main}} link is added to Internet slang#Examples, because this is an example of internet slang. You may recall that a precedent has already been set for this with noob.
I'm going with summary for teh win! :P —davidh.oz.au 01:35, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
I actually looked up "teh" and was happy to find this article. "Teh" most certainly is not just a misspelling for "the" any more. KEEP, please. I vote for deleting the lame "Chinese" section though. It's not useful and is irrelevant to the rest of the article. Evangeline (talk) 15:58, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Previous deletion nom

Teh text of this article has apparently been moved around quite a bit. I participated in a discussion when it was up for deletion way back in October 2004 (back then it was still called Votes for Deletion). It had already survived a VfD the previous May. I do believe that at at various points it redirected to Internet slang, Leet, and even The. This article's history for some reason doesn't show anything prior to 2006. I voted "Keep" back in '04 based on precedent, but it was a rather dubious article back then. Most of the content was people's recollections (read "WP:OR") of people using the word on Something Awful. Teh content now is definitely a bit more encyclopedic, what with the discussion on how the unusual grammatical structure of "teh *" has correlations in other languages. However, it's still unsourced, and I'd guess it would be almost unsourceable. I doubt anyone's ever written a reliable source on teh subject. Fishal 20:26, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Actually, there's at least one undergraduate (linguistics) thesis on leetspeak from the last 5-10 years I have saved on my harddrive, and where there's one, there's bound to be more... --User422 (talk) 21:05, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Citations added

I've rewritten part of the article including citations to references pointed out by Zagalejo in the AfD 2nd nom. I haven't deleted the substantial discussion of its grammar - frankly I find some of its comparisons with other languages dubious but the analysis seems at least partly correct. If someone does want to delete it can they please move it to the talk page instead of deleting it entirely, so it can be reworked later by someone with more time? --Zeborah 10:51, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Old" should be spelled "olde" - it's always been done that way! Anything contrary is the work of the Devil

I'd like you all to know that the one and only reason for my newly created membership of wikipedia is so I could support the continuation of this article. I suspected that it meant something subtly different to "the" and BOOM! all is revealed. P.S. I find the reaction of the word snobs just a touch offensive to the original author. Also, these 'people' assume that everyone would realise that this is an internet slang term. Given that "Teh" has started to have at least occasional use in spoken English, this article makes perfect sense to me!

[edit] Misuse of Teh

  • Some people don't seem to know that teh is the, and seem to mistake it for a condescending IPA: [ thː ], and say things like "Why you hatin'? Teh." Erudecorp 05:36, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Usage

I use and mostly say: "teh hawtness" (hottie spotted) teh pwnage (he owned you) it's teh crAAyziness (it's the most crazy thing) This usage is common, even is speech now, esp in US and UK and should be in the article. --81.105.245.251 (talk) 11:56, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

More accurate translation would be (in respective order, of course) "The hottest", "The ownage", "It's the craziest". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.129.239.143 (talk) 22:10, 3 January 2008 (UTC)


More accurate in what sense? I, too, use "teh" in my spoken English and it is neither homophonic (homophonous?) with "the" nor the same in meaning (as this article goes on at length to say). --User422 (talk) 21:08, 2 May 2008 (UTC)