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June 20, 2007
Can you read this?
From a friend:
Spelling reconsidered! All that time wasted learning spelling words!
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
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 dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Aza! nmig hu h? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.
More
- The Simplified Spelling Society
- The Simplified Spelling Society - from Wikipedia
- NuSpeling: New Spelling & other Replacement Writing Systems
- Mark Twain quotes about spelling
Posted at June 20, 2007 07:27 AM | Categories: Fun
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