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Sat 9 Jul, 2005 02:27 am
Children in Britain are now going to be taught phonics again (wow), but our few years with the Look and Say method are probably based on this phenomenon which you presumably only can cope with when you have learnt spelling the old-fashioned way.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulacity uesdnatnrd
waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan
mnid. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch taem 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 bcaseae the
huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe. Such a cdonition is arppoiately
cllaed Typo-glycemia.
I've seen this one before.. but its soo weird...
Wlel taths jsut fkcunig gerat; I can now csure, fliter be dnemad.
That's interesting--and also helps me understand why proofreading is so hard. This is something I do as part of my job. The mind makes it seem as though the word is spelled correctly, even when it isn't...
Just reading the word phonics makes me break out in a cold sweat.
Why don't they spell it fonics?
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