Fascinating word research

Don't delete this because it looks weird. Believe it or not you can read it.

--The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid --

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in wahtoredr the ltteers in a wrod are; the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the fristand lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and youcan sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos notraed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh! andI awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt!

Someone might take our capacity to read this paragraph as proof of the usefulness of the "whole-word" style of teaching reading. But I don't think that's true. We already know what these words mean and that's why we can perceive what they really are. We may read familiar words as a whole, but I think we learn best with phonetics, as it teaches you how to "figure out" an unknown word.

But it's still an incredibly interesting research finding!