Merkin Posted July 4, 2013 Report Share Posted July 4, 2013 The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy: It dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseaethe huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! Quote Link to comment
Chris James Posted July 4, 2013 Report Share Posted July 4, 2013 Wow, I haven't talked like that since the sixties...it was probably after an all night party with free liquor. Quote Link to comment
Merkin Posted July 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2013 In the Sixties we would, of course, randomly throw 'far out' and 'cool' into most sentences. Quote Link to comment
colinian Posted July 5, 2013 Report Share Posted July 5, 2013 Ah, ys, bt ty rdng it ot ld ad se hw it cms ot. Colin Quote Link to comment
Lugnutz Posted July 5, 2013 Report Share Posted July 5, 2013 Ahhh. The short bus arrived. Quote Link to comment
Chris James Posted July 5, 2013 Report Share Posted July 5, 2013 You know, James...if you read that paragraph aloud with a heavy Scottish accent it all makes sense! Ach Mon. Quote Link to comment
Merkin Posted July 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2013 Maybe so, but if I try to read Robert Burns aloud I bust a gut laughing and he still doesn't make any sense. Quote Link to comment
colinian Posted July 6, 2013 Report Share Posted July 6, 2013 I've never tried that, James. I like to laugh, and doing so when I'm reading makes my housemates ask what I'm reading that's so funny. Imaging their surprise when they are handed Robert Burns! Thanks for the tip. Colin Quote Link to comment
Chris James Posted July 6, 2013 Report Share Posted July 6, 2013 Just a note: I think Des is losing control Down Under. Either that or there are some Aussies with entirely too much time on their hands doing things like this: http://now.msn.com/paul-mathis-australian-entrepreneur-developed-th-instead-of-the And he has the nerve to label himself an entrepreneur. Quote Link to comment
Merkin Posted July 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2013 That Aussie is about eleven hundred years too late: The word ye as in Ye Olde Booke Shoppe, is simply an archaic spelling of the definite article the. The use of the letter Y was a printer's adaptation of the eth, ð, the character in the Old English alphabet representing the th- sounds (th) and (t) in Modern English; Y was the closest symbol in the Roman alphabet. Originally, the form would have been rendered as yⁿ or ye. (The pronunciation (yē) today is a spelling pronunciation.) From Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, Quote Link to comment
Nick Deverill Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 And in the runic alphabet is 'th'. A friend and I actually learnt the mostly Anglo-Saxon runes in the Hobbit and we used to send each other private notes that others could see and hadn't a clue what we were talking about. Pretty simple alphabet to learn, only took us an evening and the security factor was the fact that no one else tumbled to the fact there were a few other single characters for two letters of English, so the length of words was wrong thus foiling schoolboy code breaking. Quote Link to comment
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