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Joe's Cafe, 24/7 pit stop for ESL learners and teachers | February 2008
Egg's off, bacon's off, bread's off, tea's off. English is on though.
Amzanig huh?Aoccdrnig to 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. Joe | Thursday, February 7th, 2008 | Filed under Curiosities
17 Responses to “Amzanig huh?”Leave a Comment |  Personal blog of Josef Essberger, English Club founder
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8th February 2008 at 4:37 am
That is very interesting. As a native English speaker, it’s very easy for me to make sense of those sentences. I wonder how English learners felt when trying to read it, though. Any comments from students?
13th February 2008 at 2:45 pm
it’s vrey cool and iternessnig !
13th February 2008 at 4:26 pm
especially the F,E,A
13th February 2008 at 4:41 pm
At first, I had got a little difficulty when reading then I was immediately acquainted with the strange form of the words. I know more about human mind. Totally agree that it is very interesting!
13th February 2008 at 4:52 pm
I´m not a native speaker but it´s easy to understand what the text says. It´s a quiet funny paragraph.
14th February 2008 at 1:53 pm
i am an english learner , but i can also understand and i think it will help to increase the interest in language
thank you for the information
16th February 2008 at 9:51 am
That was easy and very interesting for me, not being a native English speaker!
17th February 2008 at 4:24 pm
I am trying very heart it is difficulty
17th February 2008 at 6:51 pm
Keep trying Mgraeart. You’ll get it. Here’s the start:
According to research at Cambridge University, it doesn’t matter in what order the letters in a word are…
25th April 2008 at 4:20 am
We read it with my colleague and we find it very interesting. Thanks
4th May 2008 at 9:53 pm
It’s quite interesting and stimulating for my students. Thank you.
15th November 2008 at 9:26 pm
I am Polish so English is my second language, however, I can read the text without any problems. It works
22nd December 2008 at 12:41 pm
Lol. Xmas happy a everyone wish and hello say to want just I.
Doesn’t make sense huh? Try read backwards.
30th December 2008 at 8:56 am
wow tht is great.i enjoyed reading it.at first i didn’t get it.i thought its some other language.then when i look it again i get it. its just spelling changed but the words are easy to understand.
17th January 2009 at 9:48 am
it’s very interesting
26th January 2009 at 2:25 pm
Very interesting, but the writer doesn’t take into account that this is what dyslexics face all the time. Without having the means to decode the words in the first place, they will always seem to be jumbled. The words appear to be comprehensible to other readers because they are used to reading. and because English doesn’t have so many consonant or vowel clusters.
4th April 2009 at 12:09 am
stupid game