Spelling matters?

[Baker, John]

        As you may recall, there was a discussion last month on the readability of this scrambled text, which seemed to be at least somewhat manageable as long as initial and final letters were unchanged.  Matt Davis, who says he works at Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, in Cambridge, UK, a Medical Research Council unit that includes a large group investigating how the brain processes language, has produced this page on the current state of reading research as it relates to this meme:

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/%7Ematt.davis/Cmabrigde/


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From: Laurence Horn [mailto:laurence.horn at YALE.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:04 AM
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Subject: Re: Spelling matters?


>
>"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 total 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".