deliberate mistakes

[Amy West]

This I recognize as a Dilbertism: search the Dogbert New Ruling Class
newsletter, if you can. It is an intentional misanalysis of
"co-worker."

---Amy West

>- cow orker
>
>probably another mock typo, originating in "cow-orker" for "co-
>worker" (by transposition of the w and the hyphen).  though it could
>be a deliberate misanalysis of "coworker" as "cow+orker" rather than
>"co+worker".  over 30,000 webhits, many of them referring to the
>orking of cows.

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