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Spelling Not Important?Dee sent me the following passage that she had seen in a Lakes College leaflet recently. I did a Google search and find that there are many web pages, blogs and chat rooms which also reference this: What’s in a word?I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the human mind Aoccdmig to rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in what order the ltteers in a word are, the only iprmoatnt thing is that the frist and lsat ltter be in the rghit pclae. I have tried to track down the "Cambridge researchers" mentioned in the text, but no luck yet. What do you think? I can read it and a person with dyslexia has commented they can read it too. The other comments on the web are amazement that it DOES seem to still be readable, and all sorts of conclusions are drawn from this. Without the original research work, results, and conclusions, I think anyone should be careful not to read to much into it. (Pun intended!) It seems to be the sort of article and reference which gets spread around the world from time to time as spam emails and web page entries, to the point where people have lost the original author. I also found this page which allows you to generate your own jumbled passages. They call it a "translator page", maybe that is a bit over the top. I hope no one finds it insulting or tivialising of dyslexia. That was certainly not what was intended.
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