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{{trope}}
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The tendency for common words describing fantasy concepts to be deliberately misspelled, typically:
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* Also lampshaded in [[Kim Newman]]'s [[Diogenes Club]] story "The Gypsies in the Wood", featuring a series of children's stories about faeries (including ''The Aerie Faerie Annual''). One character rhetorically asks what's wrong with the word "fairy".
* Averted in ''[[Goblin Moon]]'' (the first volume of Teresa Edgerton's ''Mask and Dagger'' series), where "fairy" is the name of the race, while "Fae" and "Farisee" are apparently two different ''nationalities'' within that race. (The Biblical overtones of the latter may be intentional, as some of [[Teresa Edgerton]]'s nonhuman cultures are analogs to real-world human cultures.)
* In ''[[Wicked Lovely]]'', they are commonly
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* ''[[Discworld]]'' parodies this occasionally, not only with the 'vampyres' listed above, but also with 'magick' which is the largely-useless modern attempt at witchcraft done by the younger witches who don't understand what they're doing.
=== [[Tabletop Games|Taybletop Games]] ===
* [[Warhammer 40,000]] in an odd mix of sci-fi and fantasy. Orks ''vs.'' Orcs, Psykers ''vs.'' Psychics, Daemons ''vs.'' Demons, etc.
** Daemon is the Latin spelling, which is understandable because the Imperial High Gothic language is [[Canis Latinicus]]. Of course, ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'' likewise.
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