# Friday's Trivial Information

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fridays-trivial-information/201174>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 12, 2003, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fridays-trivial-information/201174 "2003-09-12T11:11:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fridays-trivial-information/201174/1 "2003-09-12T11:11:14Z")

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From an email recieved this morning:

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> Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is 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.

Interesting, hey?

Grim 😃

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**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fridays-trivial-information/201174/2 "2003-09-12T11:16:20Z")

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Quite 🙂

Unfortunately this is why poor spelling is often so easily overlooked!

Actually this is why I did not know I wasn’t writing all my letters/words correctly for a long time. I had to go to special classes to make it so other people could read what I wrote.

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**Author:** ![Moeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@Moeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moeman)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fridays-trivial-information/201174/3 "2003-09-12T16:21:27Z")

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Dislexia is my friend.