"Aoccdrnig to rscheerarch at Cmabridge Uinervtisy, it deosn't mtaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are. The olny imprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteres are 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."
This little bit of intriguing linguistic trivia stormed through inboxes in September 2003. That the order of letters within a word is relatively unimportant to reading comprehension as long as the first and last letters are in their proper places seems to be self-evident, as demonstrated by the ability of nearly everyone who came across this item to understand what it said (although this is a very general application - results may vary when different types of words and contexts are used). But was there really a university study to this effect?
Matt Davis from the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit of the University of Cambridge has insight and an ongoing discussion on the matter: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/
Source: www.snopes.com - Rumor Has It
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