strathspey@strathspey.org:44134

John Chambers

Re: Eccles Rant - No Answers?

Feb. 4, 2006, 6:52 p.m. (Message 44134, in reply to message 44034)

| Spelling no problem, most of us have an auto edit function when it comes =
| to not quite correct and skip right past it.

It turns out this is quite literally  true.   There  was  a
study  of  the  readability of misspelled (mispeled?) words
last year, and the main conclusion was that as long as  the
first and last letter of each word (or maybe two for longer
words) are correct, most people can read garbled text quite
easily.

So "ecclestiaclial" and "ecclesiastical" look the  same  to
most of us, unless we take a closer look.