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Intentional misspellings

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3:33PM
Oct-30-08


dhenderson

Sunnyvale, CA

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In a couple of fairly recent episodes, intentional misspellings, or intentional typos, have been mentioned, and you invited us to submit some of our own. I have a friend who saw an online message in which someone missplaced the hyphen in co-worker and decided she likes it, so she uses it intentionally now: cow-orker.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.