It is sometimes interesting just how fast various jokes
and other items fly through cyber space from one email to another.
Take a look at the following entries,
paying close attention to the date / time of the entries,
and in one case, the text itself.



Words vs letrts
From: Tom Barnes
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 22:02:26 -0400

Remember that card from Performance Printing? The one that tested your ability to find the character ‘f’ in a sentence? Here is something interesting on the subject? This was when Tom and I worked (volunteered) for a Community paper in Ottawa and it was a trick bit of text at the typesetter we were using.

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.




Interesting fact (?)
From: Linda M Courteau
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:19:30 -0400

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
ceehiro



The paomnnehil pweor of the hmuan mnid.
From: Dave
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:43:08 -0400

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.
Fcuknig amzanig, huh?

From: Don Edgar
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:34:39 -0400

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
Initsereg!!