Mike Marron wrote:
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a
wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist
and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a total 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.

Gord Beaman wrote
It is!...I never came across that before!...quite amazing.

Just a lesson in how gifted the human mind is in
finding familiar patterns in a stream of input or data.
Some "progressive" people (mis)used this ability as
the springboard to the concept of "sight reading,"
where kids who are learning to read are taught to
try to guess the word based on how it looks. Funny
thing is, if you don't already know how to read (i.e.
your mind has not yet learned what patterns to try to
fit the jumbles into), it doesn't work worth a damn.


Jeff