For all of us persnickety spellers!!

[upnorth]

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe 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. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.

[Hoffer]

Up North-

I read that with no problem - maybe a tad slower than what I normally would - but it was no problem - very interesting.

[Ice9]

Unproth always posts such interesting things.

ice

[Wade Joseph]

Eye grajewated from da evelin woodhead sped redding corse. I red dat wifout eevin yousin my dikshonary.

[upnorth]

LOL!!!

[hitthebricks]

I wonder what spell check could do with it. HTB

[musky hunter]

Interesting, and it must have taken an hour to type that, unless you had a spell scrambler. So as long as it's the first and last letter that counts, why don't we just eliminate all those unnecessary letters in the middle?

[upnorth]

I didn't write that myself(just not that creative) it was sent to me and I thought it was interesting enough to pass on. Rather cool if you ask me.

[rushing]

I accualy could prolly read that faster than normal since its like reading my own hand writing.

[BobT]

That's funny, rushing!!

I think this only works for those words we already know and the fact that they are used in a sentence. Otherwise, explain why it is not so easy to solve those scrambled word puzzles.

Bob

[Eckie]

Also because the key letters of the words remain in their original location of those words being used (ie-first and last letters--the rest are scrambled)..

[Ely Lake Expert]

Thats scary, I could read that as fast as I normally read.

[SteveWilson]

I cd rd it jt fe ad fy qy to. Wt hs wn we le of te me cs?

[ozzie]

I read the paragraph fine and I can understand a few of Steve's words.......That is why the middle letters are important. interesting to say the least....

[SpecialK]

If I remember right, the words also need to be the same length.

[Trumar]

ALL I KNOW IS THAT IT IMPOSSIBLE TO SPELL A WORD WITHOUT SAYING THAT WORD IN YOUR MIND B4 OR AFTER SPELLING IT

[united jigsticker]

Steve,

I cd rd it jt fe ad fy qy to.

Wt hs wn we le of te me cs?

I could read that just fine and fairly quickly too.

What happens when we leave off the middle constanants?

[SteveWilson]

correct except for the last word - characters