[Dixielandjazz] Spelling etc

[david richoux]

This little thing has really spread over many of the more intelligent 
e-lists in the last two days!
For some history and research you might go here:  
http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000227.html

Dave Richoux

On Monday, Sep 15, 2003, at 15:51 US/Pacific, Richard Broadie wrote:

> I'm delighted that this phenomena is also manifested in the context of
> music.  How else would my fans recognize the songs I'm playing?   :-)  
> Dick
> Broadie
>
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>> Hi John and all,
>>
>> You observed:
>>
>>> The phaomnnehil 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 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.
>>>
>>> smiply amzanig huh?
>>
>> Not really . . . every elementary school teacher knows this. It 
>> doesn't
> take
>> a research linguist at Cambridge University to tell us something we
> already
>> know.
>>
>> Furthermore, its also amazing how much degredation in resolution of 
>> the
>> printed page is possible before the text becomes unreadable.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Gunter
>> jazzboard at hotmail.com
>>
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