Cn’at selpl? Dn’ot wrory aoubt it

Interesting linguistic fun on Joi Ito’s blog :

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. 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 ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Some interesting commentary on his site, too, with links to some discussions by linguists about why this works. It’s surprisingly readable, but it gives my spellchecker fits.

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