deliberate mistakes

[James Harbeck]

>"Cow orker" originated on talk.bizarre

I rather doubt that talk.bizarre could be said to be _the_ point of
origin for it. It's a common in joke among members of the Editors'
Association of Canada, for instance, with no reference to
talk.bizarre and probably no members of the association ever having
seen talk.bizarre. It's an obvious enough wordplay -- and even
occasional misreading -- that one has to assume it has cropped
independently in any number of contexts, probably first appearing
within a very short time after "coworker" was first written closed up.

James Harbeck.

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