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Thursday, 18 September, 2003

Linguistic research

This small snippet is currently doing the rounds on the internet: Aoccdrnig to rsereach at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteres are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Already it is appearing in other languages such as

French and Portuguese, but it doesn't seem to work too well in German, Dutch, or Scandanavian languages.

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