Naet huh?
Acocdrnig to rseecrah at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deson’t mttaer in waht oredr the lteters in a wrod aeappr, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbemls. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.
I wnedor if it’s the smae for dlsyecixs?
Os athw fi hte ifrts dna alts elttrse era imxde pu?
Mmmmmmmmh. I ese hwta htye emna.
April 11th, 2006 | 7:48pm
by Philip Challinor
Then you’re fcuk’ed.
April 12th, 2006 | 2:00am
by PMM
Hmmm… as with most of these things there’s clearly an element of truth behind it, but you leave yourself open to accusations of propagating an urban myth by quoting this stuff verbatim: Snopes: Can you raed tihs?
April 12th, 2006 | 9:40am
by Nick
What makes this really clear is this:
Irememberseeingadphillinguistgivingapresentationonhisthesisinwhic
hheshowedslidesofcorrectlyspeltwordsandslidesofwordswiththefirsta
ndlastlettersintherightplacebutotherwiseallmixedup.Itwasmuchharde
rtoreadthewordswithoutanyspacesbetweenthemthanthemisspeltwordswhi
chhadthefirstandlastlettersintherightplace.
April 12th, 2006 | 11:31am
by Rob
Nick, it was sent to me by email without any attribution. I kind of assumed it was at least half urban myth as it didn’t come with a ubiquitous link to a BBC story.
Lest anyone else be confused, when an item appears as a “Newsbite”, you may not want to take it too seriously. The same, of course, should be said for any other post on this site. The Irish census is in a week and a half. I’ll be writing ‘Discordian’ into the religion box.
Hail Eris!
April 12th, 2006 | 4:17pm
by Jim
As you probably know, there is a Firefox plugin called Confuscator which enables every word you post to be so mangled. Bogol, of course, made an artform of this long ago…
April 19th, 2006 | 8:04pm
by i hope you get cancerâ„¢
I have a good friend with a rabbit called Eris; he made this weeks BritBlog.
That silly ‘study’ story has been fdoing the rounds for years now. Still amusing.
April 23rd, 2006 | 3:19pm
by MatGB