You are not going to believe this one.
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.
amzanig, huh?
Regards,
Kim Siddorn
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Parnod?
Don't talk to me about Pernod!
Why. What's wrong with dad falling asleep :-) ttfn Roland
One of my colleagues in the drawing office used to check the NOTES column on drawings with the drawing upside down. He said if you read upside down it forced your brain to read letters properly and this helped him to find spelling errors.
Bill
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John Stevenson Nottingham, England.
My wife is an editor and one of the tricks of proofreading is to read every sentence backwards, for the same reason.
Dan
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