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The tendency for common words describing fantasy concepts to be deliberately misspelled, typically: * As a way of distinguishing the "real" concept from the fake version, such as "Magick" versus stage magic. * As a way of implying ancientness. This is somewhat Truth in Television, because before spelling was codified words could be spelled in a number of different ways, though in modern fantasy it is often gratuitous and may not even reflect the way a word was really spelled in any ancient languages. * As a way of being pretentious. * It looks Kool A Super-Trope to Magick.

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  • Phantasy Spelling
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  • The tendency for common words describing fantasy concepts to be deliberately misspelled, typically: * As a way of distinguishing the "real" concept from the fake version, such as "Magick" versus stage magic. * As a way of implying ancientness. This is somewhat Truth in Television, because before spelling was codified words could be spelled in a number of different ways, though in modern fantasy it is often gratuitous and may not even reflect the way a word was really spelled in any ancient languages. * As a way of being pretentious. * It looks Kool A Super-Trope to Magick.
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  • The tendency for common words describing fantasy concepts to be deliberately misspelled, typically: * As a way of distinguishing the "real" concept from the fake version, such as "Magick" versus stage magic. * As a way of implying ancientness. This is somewhat Truth in Television, because before spelling was codified words could be spelled in a number of different ways, though in modern fantasy it is often gratuitous and may not even reflect the way a word was really spelled in any ancient languages. * As a way of being pretentious. * It looks Kool Common words spelled this way are "magic", "vampire", "fairy", and "fantasy", among others. See also My Nayme Is, Xtreme Kool Letterz, and Punctuation Shaker, A Villain Named Zrg and Law of Alien Names. Depending on the word, the author may instead decide that Capital Letters Are Magic. A Super-Trope to Magick. Examples of Phantasy Spelling include:
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