WARNING:  This article is not for grammar-correcting prone type of people

Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs!

Cdnoul’t blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch 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 toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid does not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azamanig huh? Yeah and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!!! See if yrou fdreins can raed tihs too.

OK let’s take a break so the mind doesn’t have to process so much. As I wrote this, the spell checker is going crazy.  It’s quite interesting that our mind can do that, and I am really curious whether it would work for other languages like French, Spanish, German as well…

My kids won’t know about this until they are done with grade school, by the way.