Rscheearch?

This is really weird. Read on

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 toatl 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. 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 toatl 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.
 

After having seen this the first time, in an email of course, I did some more research of my own. All I had to do was paste the jumbled “research at Cambridge University” or ”rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy” into a Google Search engine, and came up with several articles and blogs about it.

Don’t be deceived by the ease at which you could read that paragraph. This article http://blogs.msdn.com/fontblog/archive/2005/11/16/493452.aspx claims that the words were chosen carefully and another writer claims it is the length of the word that makes the difference. And of course another claims that no matter what the truth is, there was no research done about this sort of thing at Cambridge anyway .

This one http://blogs.msdn.com/fontblog/archive/2006/05/09/594050.aspx claims to have done research clocking the speeds to show how much slower the jumbled reading really was. I’m sure if you check out these blogs or do a Google search, you will keep yourself busy surfing from one site to another. OK OK, So it doesn’t take much to amuse me, but check it out anyway.

Most of the seemingly possible but bizarre stories that come your way by email are exaggerations at best and complete hoaxes at worst. I use two quick sources to determine the validity of most urban legends and pass the truth and a link to the site on to my mis-informed friends. There are probably others but my favorite are www.snopes.com and http://urbanlegends.about.com/.

It's really fun responding to my brother in law and  letting him know his story is a hoax.  Just kidding Mark. He's a busy guy.