OT: For all the spelling police out there.

Apr 11, 2005 2 Replies
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Typoglycemia



Don't delete this because it looks weird. Believe it or not you can read it .... it might just blow your spellchecker up, though.



I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht 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. Such a cdonition is arppoiately cllaed Typoglycemia.



Amzanig huh? Yaeh and yuo awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.


Thanks - you just gave me a new way to look at my Scrabble tiles!

Blow the scrabble tiles - it gave me a new way to look at my TYPING!!! LOL!

Pat P

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