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by LastMuel 1118 days ago
My thought was that it would add some protection against a dictionary attack.

"Horse-with-a-C" is a longer password, but could possibly be hit using an algorithm that expects "with-a-[letter]" to be generated as part of a password.

The randomized misspelling of a word-or-two was intended to break a dictionary attack.