How to Read This Sentence
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How to Raed This Stecnene
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Msot polepe wlil be albe to raed the txet on tihs secren eevn tgouhh msot of the wodrs hvae had tehir leretts jubmled up
Most people will be able to read the text on this screen even though most of the words have had their letters jumbled up
The rasoen for tihs is taht yuor biarn sncas ecah wrod as a wlohe, reahtr tahn tainkg it in lteetr by leettr
The reason for this is that your brain scans each word as a whole, rather than taking it in letter by letter
As lnog as all the leretts of the wrod are trehe, tehy colud rlaley be in any oedrr as lnog as the fsrit and lsat leertts are peclad ceclorrty
As long as all the letters of the word are there, they could really be in any order as long as the first and last letters are placed correctly
If we lrenead the slikl of riegrannrag armgnaas in elray codhihold, we wluod hvae no pelbrom in riadeng even vrey lnog wdors wetirtn dwon in scuh a way
If we learned the skill of rearranging anagrams in early childhood, we would have no problem in reading even very long words written down in such a way
Heveowr… wodrs scuh as ctovieronsan & ctovieronsan – aagrmnas taht srahe comomn fisrt and lsat letrets – cloud (could) casue smoe coofniusn if the cenxott of tiher ugsae was ulancer
However… words such as conversation & conservation – anagrams that share common first and last letters – could (cloud) cause some confusion if the context of their usage was unclear
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Now try and read the following passage from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream without being shown the answer
If we saodwhs hvae ofedenfd,
Tinhk but tihs, and all is mdeend,
Taht you hvae but submler’d hree
Wlihe tshee vnsiios did aepapr.
And tihs waek and ilde tmehe,
No mroe yinidelg, but a daerm
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