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[once again]

Try this out on yourself and your students..

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh 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 is at the rghit pclae. The
rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod
as a wlohe.

That should make all us poor spellers on this board take heart!!

[naturegirl321]

That's great!

[Stephen Jones]

Pointed out in another forum, but still harder to read than the correctly spelt version, you need the context, and if you started putting other letters in the middle it would be less clear.

Ad was also pointed out there, it is more a proof of the high levels of redundancy in language than any profound finding.