Before I left home, my brother and I looked through his photo album from our trip around Europe together. One of the pictures taken in Scotland was of a Hairy Coo, or a cow that's hair is so shaggy it looks like it's covered entirely in dreadlocks.
When I made note of this picture, Alec related to me his motivation for spelling the name 'coo.' See, our bus driver for the Scotland tour, Mike, was a bit of a pathological liar. Numerous times he tried to convince us of the existence of various imaginary animals: Nessie, Haggis, whatever he could come up with. The problem for Alec was that when Mike introduced us to the Hairy Coo (a very real animal), he explained that the name was spelled 'Cououu' with the last 'u' silent.
Now, while Mikey had been arguing on the existence of totally false animals, Alec was tripped up by the fact that this one was real. After a day's worth of consideration and debate, Alec finally made up his mind that 'cououu' was probably not the correct way to spell the name, though this was not without some serious thought. As Alec put it, while Mike lied alot about fake animals "I didn't think he'd lie about the way an animal's name was spelled!"