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in reply to a message by ADT
I'd be amazed if it is a typo for Ocean - if you can type, you'd be using different hands for O and c, and if you can't, then presumably you're watching what you're doing.
My guess is that it's a jazz variation on the ln Cohen - it's very fashionable to use surnames as given names, but if there's one surname I wouldn't mess with, it's Cohen! Sounds good, but if you're not Jewish AND a Cohen the likelihood of treading on toes is too great.
I doubt if it's made up. Possibly someone heard Cohen, has never seen it, and used a 'phonetic' spelling?
My guess is that it's a jazz variation on the ln Cohen - it's very fashionable to use surnames as given names, but if there's one surname I wouldn't mess with, it's Cohen! Sounds good, but if you're not Jewish AND a Cohen the likelihood of treading on toes is too great.
I doubt if it's made up. Possibly someone heard Cohen, has never seen it, and used a 'phonetic' spelling?
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There are many types of typos, and not all of them involve hitting the key next to the one you were intending.
If you were typing quickly and hit some of the keys for o-c-e-a-n in the wrong order, you could easily get c-o-e-a-n instead. That's how typos such as 'teh' for 'the' and 'thier' for 'their' happen, after all.
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If you were typing quickly and hit some of the keys for o-c-e-a-n in the wrong order, you could easily get c-o-e-a-n instead. That's how typos such as 'teh' for 'the' and 'thier' for 'their' happen, after all.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Some non-Jewish possibilities would include anagrams of "Canoe" of "O! Acne!"
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