History Main / PhantasySpelling

** ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Thaumatology'' notes the variation and its origins; “Some people think this offers a useful distinction between stage trickery and the real super-natural deal; others consider it pretentious.”

** ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' somes uses the -k spelling to indicate proper reality-warping magic(k), as opposed to lower-powered supernatural dabbling.

* There's some confusion over the term "Dæmon". Creator/HPLovecraft will occasionally use this to refer to evil spirits (''i.e,'' Demons). ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' was a bit more on the ball with the original meaning: a shortening of the term "Agathos Dæmon", a benevolent [[OurSoulsAreDifferent guardian spirit]].
** Daemon comes from the Greek "Daimon", meaning minor immortal or spirit. It's the eventual root of the Christian concept of "Demon".
** TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 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 CanisLatinicus. Of course, TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy likewise.
*** The Eldar and Dark Eldar make liberal use of this: Vyper hover-tanks, Wych cults, Haemonculi...

*** Supplementary sources state that J.R.R. Tolkien discovered too late that "dwerrow" was an acceptable plural for "dwarf". Had he known that earlier he said he would have used it, and avoided the "dwarfs/dwarves" question. ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' of course used "dwerrow" for their race of "dark dwarfs/dwarves".
*** He realized too late for ''Literature/TheHobbit'', but in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' he did use "Dwarrowdelf" as a translation for ''Khazad-Dûm''.

* ''Literature/{{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.

* Creator/ChinaMieville's PerdidoStreetStation [[Literature/TheScar and]] [[Literature/IronCouncil sequels]] employ this trope heavily -- vampirs, chymistry, elyctric elementals.

* The ''PhantasyStar'' video games. The whole different spelling thing is true in both America and in Japan.

-->"You're the boss vampire?"
-->"With a Y. Spell vampyre with a Y!"

* AleisterCrowley and the Wiccans following his example are responsible for the RealLife trend of adding a 'k' to the end of the word 'magic', ostensibly for the first reason in the description but more realistically for the second (magic had never been spelled that way in modern English, but it seems like an older spelling at first glance).

** TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} in an odd mix of sci-fi and fantasy. Orks ''vs.'' Orcs, Psykers ''vs.'' Psychics, Daemons ''vs.'' Demons, etc.

* In Literature/WickedLovely, they are commonly refferd to as the fey, one on it's own is a faery. The world is faerie.

*** Daemon is the Latin spelling, which is understandable because the Imperial High Gothic language is CanisLatinicus. Of course, WarhammerFantasy likewise.

* VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura drops the "Magic as Magick" spelling already in its title. Given the industrial revolution setting and {{steampunk}} esthetics, a lot of the more technical language in the game is also influenced by outdated 18th and 19th century terminology and expressions (though not excessively and usually without archaic spellings).

Common words spelled this way are "magic", "vampire", "fairy", and "fantasy", among others. See also MyNaymeIs, XtremeKoolLetterz, and PunctuationShaker, AVillainNamedZrg and LawOfAlienNames. Depending on the word, the author may instead decide that CapitalLettersAreMagic.

* There's some confusion over the term "Dæmon". Creator/HPLovecraft will occasionally use this to refer to evil spirits (''i.e,'' Demons). ''HisDarkMaterials'' was a bit more on the ball with the original meaning: a shortening of the term "Agathos Dæmon", a benevolent [[OurSoulsAreDifferent guardian spirit]].

*** ''EverQuest'' divides them into Griffawns (lowest-level), Griffennes (in the middle), and Griffons (highest-level)

* ''Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theater''.

* ChinaMieville's PerdidoStreetStation [[Literature/TheScar and]] [[Literature/IronCouncil sequels]] employ this trope heavily -- vampirs, chymistry, elyctric elementals.

* In WickedLovely, they are commonly refferd to as the fey, one on it's own is a faery. The world is faerie.

[[AC: [[TheFairFolk Fairy/Phaery]]]]

[[AC:Fantasy/Phantasy]]

[[AC:[[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampire/Vampyr(e)]]]]

[[AC:Other/Multiple]]

** Or even, [[FanNickname on rare occasions]], "[[VideoGame/DwarfFortress dorfs]]."

* ChinaMieville's PerdidoStreetStation [[Literature/TheScar and]] [[Literature/IronCouncil sequels]] employ this trope heavily -- vampirs, chymistry, elyctric elementals...

* Averted in ''Goblin Moon'', 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 TeresaEdgerton's nonhuman cultures are analogs to real-world human cultures.)

* One ''{{Blade}}'' series implies that vampires and vampyres are actually different things.

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', knights are "Ser" not "Sir". The ''VideoGame/DragonAge'' series, much influenced by ASOIAF, does the same thing.

* ''RuneScape''[='s=] vampires are vampyres (noted in the quest name "Vampyre Slayer"), with the tie-in novels being the current notable exception spelling-wise.

* In ''Series/GameOfThrones'', knights are "Ser" not "Sir".

* In ''TheSecretsOfTheImmortalNicholasFlamel'', Flamel is called the Alchemyst and that's also used as the first book's title.

* In addition to the above vampire/vampyre example, various words in the ''Darkangel Trilogy'' have odd spellings, [[spoiler: which may be justified as corruptions of the original language of the Ancient Ones]]. Squatty underground-dwellers are [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame duaroughs]], big black birds are rhuks, scaly creatures are [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dracgs]], and sweet pale-orange fruits are [[HowDoYouLikeThemApples apricoks]].

* ''Literature/AmericanGods'' includes a very brief walk-on by a "wampyr". Mostly, this is to evoke the Slavic folk roots of the creature, and not simply to say that NeilGaiman's [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires Are Different.]] Which hardly needs saying. Neil Gaiman's everything is different, at least from the pop culture version.

* Brian Lumley's ''{{Necroscope}}'' series features the classic Romanian mythological variant "Wamphyri".