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==Usage==
''Teh'' originates from the not common [[Typographical error|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<ref name="Tavosanis">{{cite conference|first=Mirko|last= Tavosanis|title=A Causal Classification of Orthography Errors in Web Texts|book-title=IJCAI-07 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (AND-07)|pages=99–106|publisher=International Association for Pattern Recognition|date=2007-01-08| location=Hyderabad, India|url=http://research.ihost.com/and2007/cd/Proceedings_files/p99.pdf|access-date=2007-07-06}}</ref> and can be used ironically<ref name="Blashki">{{Cite journal|last=Blashki|first=Katherine|author2=Sophie Nichol |title=Game Geek's Goss: Linguistic creativity in young males within an online university forum (94/\/\3 933k'5 9055oneone)|journal=Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society|volume=3|issue=2|pages=77–86|year=2005|url=http://ojs.lib.swin.edu.au/index.php/ajets-test/article/viewFile/52/83|access-date=2007-07-06}}</ref> or to mock someone's lack of "[[geek|techie]]" knowledge or skills, as an insult, or to reinforce a group's elitism;<ref name="LeBlanc"/> cf. [[eye dialect]].
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