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Does Spelling Matter or Does It? lol

As long as we are destroying word illusions this week with Toxic Words on Monday and the meaning of peruse on Wednesday, I thought we'd tackle something else that has been a pet peeve of mine for quite a while. You've probably seen that familiar paragraph attributed to Cambridge University that says that as long as you keep the first and last letters of words in the correct places, you can switch around the letters and still read the paragraph.  Here's a screen shot: Well, there is more to it than it first appears.  Check out this YouTube video of the Brother's Winn from What You Ought to Know: Now that they have burst your bubble on this little parlor trick, I'd like...

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