"Classic typo," I say when Meade points out the now corrected "teh" in the previous post.

'"It's so classic that it's become..." he says, and I finish the sentence "...a meme."

"I bet there's a Wikipedia article on it," I say, and I'm right!

Teh

Not to be confused with The.
For other uses, see Teh (disambiguation).

Teh is an Internet slang neologism most frequently used as an English article, based on a common typographical error of "the". Teh has subsequently developed grammatical usages distinct from the. It is not common in spoken or written English outside technical or leetspeak circles, but when spoken, it is pronounced /tɛ/ or /tə/....

It is often used ironically, and can be used to mock someone's lack of "techie" knowledge or skills, as an insult, or to reinforce a group's elitism; cf. eye dialect. It is frequently used to denote mock ignorance of over-used and over-determined concepts (e.g., "long live teh Patriarchy").

I love that there's a Wikipedia article on typos, but I won't detour there (or into leetspeak). My inclination runs toward eye dialect — "the use of nonstandard spelling for speech to draw attention to an ironically standard pronunciation."

The term was coined by George P. Krapp...

... dangerously subject to the respelling "crap"...

... to refer to the literary technique of using nonstandard spelling that implies a pronunciation of the given word that is actually standard, such as wimmin for women; the spelling indicates that the character's speech overall is dialectal, foreign, or uneducated. This form of nonstandard spelling differs from others in that a difference in spelling does not indicate a difference in pronunciation of a word. That is, it is dialect to the eye rather than to the ear. It suggests that a character "would use a vulgar pronunciation if there were one" and "is at the level of ignorance where one misspells in this fashion, hence mispronounces as well."

Wow. I had never heard of this, though I've seen it, of course, and so have you:

American cartoonist Al Capp frequently combined eye dialect with pronunciation spelling in his comic strip "Li'l Abner". Examples include lissen, aristocratick, mountin [mountain], correkt, feends, hed, introduckshun, leppard, and perhaps the most common, enuff.

AND: Hitting "publish," I say, "There, check out the post. Urine it."