正確的英文串法重要嗎? Is the Letter Ordering in English Important?

正確的英文串法重要嗎?
Is the Letter Ordering in English Important?

最近在網上看到一個有趣的留言，請先看一下以下一段文字:

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 toatl 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.

要理解嗎?

這段字正確的串法應是:

According to a researcher (sic) at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself but the word as a whole.

驚訝地發現原來人的腦真是這麼利害，唔講真係唔知，那些研究真是令人眼界大開。

正想深入了解多一點，在google裡卻有另一驚人發現 - 這個研究並不是出於英國的劍橋大學!

跟據英國劍橋的網頁https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/ 這最早由University of Nottingham, Nottingham UK的Dr. Rawlinson於1976年研究，可時變成劍橋大學出品就不得而知了。

網絡世界上的東西真真假假，那些半真半假的令人混亂，有時只能靠Google大神幫手分別。

話轉回來，新的研究(那真是劍橋的出品)指出除了頭尾字重要還有其他因數影響，例如換了位置的遠近，換了位後會不會成為另一個字(e.g. salt, slat)。想知更多就自己去上面劍橋的網頁看看。