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Dear online readers,

Being new to this splendid website, my following suggestion may well have been made elswhere without me noticing it. I received from a correspondent the text below which surely must have circulated around the planet by now, so nothing new for many readers. It prompted me to propose the following challenge to your writing community:

- Would the moderators and best authors on writing.com consider setting up a periodical contest which would reward a text/poem that would use the same rationale (only first and last letters correctly placed, all other letters correct, but misplaced) and play on the technique to create innuendo and ambiguity, a way of teasing the "pweor of the hmuan mnid" referred to here, of using the well-known "typo" syndrome to generate literary meaning?

Yorus wingtirly,

Alec Numa





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Can you raed it?

Olny srmat poelpe can.

Cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, 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. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

If you can raed tihs psas it on !