Al here… just thought I’d share an email I just received:
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch sdtuy at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht odrer the lterets in a wrod are, the olny iprmnoett tihng is taht the frist and lsat lteetr be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit pormbels . Tihs is bcuseae the haumn mnid deos not raed ervey lteetr by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
The psycholinguist in me is fascinated… I wonder if this was a real study at Cmabrgde?
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
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Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
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Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.