Smcralebd Ltretes Dknuebed
You probably remember the story about how you can scramble any letters in a word but people can still read them as long as the first and last letters are in place. Common you remember
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.
don’t you?
Anyway the nice folks at Improbable Research, the guys who run the Ig Nobel Prizes, have a nice bit debunking the whole thing at their blog.