Re: Puzzling out spelling

On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 19:51:22 +0000 (UTC), "David Wright Sr."
<dwrightsr@xxxxxxxxxx> 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."


But surely the rest is not a "total mess"! When you look closely at
words like "iprmoatnt", "porbelm" and "slpeling", you see that the
order of the vowels is exactly the same as in the original words. What
would happen if you used "inamtport", "plebrom" or "snilpelg"? Another
thing is that most words used are fairly short. Try to figure out a
word like "daporistoprionte" and things are a lot more difficult to
uesdnatnrd!
.

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