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“Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinevtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Such a cdonition is arppoiately cllaed Typoglycemia. Amzanig huh? Yaeh, and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt!”

Widely circulated on the internet and by email, the explanation of this phenomenon is partly incorrect and partly incomplete.

Incorrect: There is no such "rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy". “Typoglycemia” is not appropriate (“glycemia” = blood sugar).

Incomplete: We also look at word shape and can predict words based on prior meaning. Long or very jumbled words are, in fact, difficult to read (eg. A dootcr has aimttded the magltheuansr of a tageene ceacnr pintaet who deid aetfr a hatospil durg blendur).