Mosscow

Mosscow: verb. It has recently been found by a group of Bibliologists studying old engravings on stone tablets buried all around the Desert of Sinai that the Ten Commandments as given to Moses had, in fact, been misspelt by a scribe copying them down, concretely articles 3 and 10, which were written down wrongly to such a degree that their meanings were completely changed. Originally, article 3 wasn´t about taking the Lord´s name in vain, but about not doing intravenous drugs. Similarly, article 10 wasn´t about coveting thy neighbour´s ox, but about covering thy neighbour´s ox, which makes all the difference in the world. Article 10 was actually a quite clever play on words that God left in to amuse Moses and his people. It served as a warning against covering the heads and faces of women (as was the custom of some tribes in the region), whom God wittily referred to as cows (as is the common practice today). It also paralleled another custom common amongst the old tribes, which was mosscowing, the ritual covering of cows with moss that God disapproved of. Modern Bibliologists explain God´s disapproval of this practice quite simply. Apparently, it was originally devised as a means to provide camouflage for cows in lush green places, but in the desert, it seemed rather redundant and in fact counterproductive to have cows "camouflaged" by running around sandy dunes with vibrant green colours exposing them to raiders from miles away.