Comments on: What is with these words? http://blog.tinyprints.com/etiquette/what-is-with-these-words/ Stationery small talk: your online destination for news, trends, and creative ideas for your social stationery needs Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:50:35 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Kevin http://blog.tinyprints.com/etiquette/what-is-with-these-words/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Kevin Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:42:13 +0000 http://blog.tinyprints.com/?p=382#comment-131 Wow! you aren't kidding. I think that we're so used to spell check and skimming things that we breeze right by our misspellings. In fact, it took me three reads to figure out why Chirstmas wasn't spelled right. It reminds me of an email that I received a while back: "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe." Wow! you aren’t kidding. I think that we’re so used to spell check and skimming things that we breeze right by our misspellings. In fact, it took me three reads to figure out why Chirstmas wasn’t spelled right. It reminds me of an email that I received a while back:

“Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.”

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