Phantasy Spelling: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"In honour of you guys, we're naming this band'' 'Ironheade'. ''With an 'e' at the end, so people know we mean business!"''|'''Eddie Riggs''', ''[[Brütal Legend|Brutal Legend]]''}}

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== Fantasy/Phantasy ==

=== Literature ===

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* The ''[[Phantasy Star]]'' video games. The whole different spelling thing is true in both America and in Japan.

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* The older 8-bit ''[[Phantasie]]'' game series.

* In ''[[The Baroque Cycle]]'' by [[Neal Stephenson]], it's consistently spelled "phant'sy".

** The apostrophe is actually there to indicate that the word "fancy" is a contraction of "fantasy", which is [[Truth in Television]].

=== Video Games ===

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* The ''[[Phantasy Star]]'' video games. The whole different spelling thing is true in both America and in Japan.

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* The older 8-bit ''[[Phantasie]]'' game series.

* ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]''.

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** Later, in an episode of ''[[Angel]]'' he even [[Got Me Doing It|gets Angel pronouncing it that way]].

** Also, in the pilot there was an old-looking book titled ''Vampyr''.

* Also parodied in ''[[~~Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|~~Carpe Jugulum]]'':

* Also parodied in ''[[Carpe Jugulum]]'':

{{quote|Vampyres are just the same, the only real difference being that they can't spell correctly.}}

* One ''[[Blade]]'' series implies that vampires and vampyres are actually different things.

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