I'm sure you've already seen this, but

[sisyphusshrugged]

it's so cool.

"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a
wlohe."

via metafilter

Comments

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

It's only almost true. I, like many, learned with a phonics system and did manage to read that paragraph though it was annoying. I know a person who pretty much learned to read on his own usinga whoel word approach and he has trouble with simple misspellings - the patterns no langer match a known reference. So I expect this gimmick can work with many but not all people. And I further suspect that anyone using this to promote whole word or whole language should look deeper into things.