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Words,nike air max 2010, their meaning as well as their spelling, seems to be featuring in the news recently.
Take for example a study of 3,500 Britons by market research company OnePoll.com. They found that ‘separate’ was the most commonly misspelt word in the English language and that this was followed by nineteen others that folk struggle to spell: definitely, manoeuvre,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], embarrass, occurrence, consensus, unnecessary, acceptable, broccoli, referred,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],mbt shoes, bureaucracy, supersede,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], questionnaire, connoisseur,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a lot,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], entrepreneur, particularly, liquify, conscience and parallel.
The reasons for this were said to include the widespread use of spell-checks on our computers and the current fad for predictive text messaging on our mobile phones. I might add that poor education must also feature largely in the equation, especially as the recently published SATs results showed that more than a third of pupils left primary school during the thirteen years of Labour government without a proper grasp of the three ‘R’s’.
Computer spell-checks are all very well but if a word is very badly typed,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the software may not be able to find the correct alternative spelling and insert something else. The operator must also remember to switch the spell-checker from an American dictionary to an English one. I expect it is for this reason that I ee more and more American spellings creeping into some of the things I read.
As for mobile phones,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], most of them now have predictive text. Type in one letter and the gizmo tries to guess what the next letter will be - sometimes incorrectly if the person isn’t watching what its doing. There is also a form of shorthand used by texters which seems to be understood by others though,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as it happens, I can’t be bothered to text for I use my mobile as a phone, ignoring all the other features as being useless to me. So if I got a text which included the letters CM (call me), OMG (Oh my God),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] toronto, SLAP (sounds like a plan) or CMB (call me back), I’d have to find a texting dictionary to understand what is being meant.
Words are sometimes seen at first glance to be gobbledegook while a closer look quickly shows their meaning. As for instance in the following example which has been widely circulated on the internet:
‘Arocdnicg to rsceearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,lacoste polo shirts, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pcale. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit pobelrm. Tihs is buseace the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.’
Curiously, it appears that no such study has been carried out by Cambridge University but, on the other hand, it does go to show how our brains scan words and tries to makes sense of them.
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