Typoglycemia is a term given to a supposedly recent discovery about the cognitive processes

behind reading written text. The word appears to be a combination of "typo", as in typographical
error, and "hypoglycemia". It is an urban legend that appears to have an element of truth to it.
The legend, propagated by email and message boards, demonstrates that readers can understand
the meaning of words in a sentence even when the interior letters of each word are scrambled. As
long as all the necessary letters are present, and the first and last letters remain the same, readers
appear to have little trouble reading the text.
"I cdn'uolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg: the phaonmneel pweor of
the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rseearch taem 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. Scuh a
cdonition is arppoiatrely cllaed Typoglycemia . "Amzanig huh? Yaeh and you awlyas thguoht
slpeling was ipmorantt."