It is a corruption of the phrase, and per se, and, which one would say as one recited this extended alphabet after zed, or zee in this case, I suppose.

这一个语讹传：“and per se, and”，当你在zed之后，也zee， 在这种情况下， 背诵这个展字母表时会说这句话。

Those guys have a way of adding two and two and coming up with five.

这些这样以讹传讹毫无道理可讲。

And a society-wide game of telephone started to be played.

全民开始以讹传讹。