[Cousin Eddie]

They know exactly what they are doing. Check out an email I recently received...

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.



Amzanig huh?

[gathersnomoss]

Butifl.

[T Minus Four]

Dang, I zipped right through that. Well that does it, I'm not buying siht from Target.

[Old Jarhead 46]

Yuor dmnsetraotoin was vrey celar, epilcxit and dmenotsrtvaie.

Cgontrltaunaios!

Old Sgare

[Ciexyz]

Amzaning huh?

Totlly unblvble.

[heleny]

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.

That must have been hard to type! But, it wasn't too difficult to read, perhaps because most of the words were short and most letters weren't moved too far from their original positions.

Traegt sotre chian of cmmoon dceecny
vs.
Tgreat sorte ciahn of cmoomn dncceey

[Marysecretary]

I got that the other day, too. It IS amazing that you can read it right along just knowing the first and last letters. Ah, the mind is a fearsome thing.

[MEGoody]

"Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

Actually, I did have a little trouble reading it - took a bit of effort to figure out what was being said.

[Diamond]

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.

It's called the "Wlohe Lnaaugge" method of learning to read that liberals have inflicted on the very young.

Cordially,

[GraniteStateConservative]

So why do we teach phonics?