On 12 Oct 2007 at 19:59, Martha Capreol wrote, in response to a query of 
Chris Green's
about a mangled poster at APA:


> This is the one that was emailed me to me a while ago now:
> 
>  
> Olny srmat poelpe can.
> 
>  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 deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the
> ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and 
> lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you
> can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos
> not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
> yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
> 
>  if you can raed tihs psas it on !!
> 

This one's been around the web, so to speak (and also on TIPS, I think). 
No such research took place at Cambridge University. The definitive 
source for this and much more is here:

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/

Stephen

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