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Why is "teh" the conventional mispelling of "the"?

JC 2K3 · 2007-01-07 23:42:50

Why not "eth"? Cos then we could slag n00bs by imitating them like: "OMG that iz prefix for homogolous compound with two carbon atoms r0kz0rz!!1one" Discuss.

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08-01-2007 12:42am

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JC 2K3

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Why not "eth"? Cos then we could slag n00bs by imitating them like:

"OMG that iz prefix for homogolous compound with two carbon atoms r0kz0rz!!1one"

Discuss.

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#2 08-01-2007 1:31am
biko

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Talk amongst yourselves

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#3 08-01-2007 8:43am
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they's just jostling teh definite artical

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