Re: Puzzling out spelling
- From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 21:27:18 GMT
David Wright Sr. wrote:
>
> From a private post. I suspect that it may already appeared here sometime in
> the past but I was too tired to search.
>
> "I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was
> rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid! Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
> Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deson't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod
> are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the
> rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a
> porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef,
> but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tohught slpeling was
> ipmotrant."
This turned out to be a (probably deliberate) misunderstanding of some
minor piece of research.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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