i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pcla e. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! 

One of our Putman editors sent this to the rest of us, in response to a report bemoaning that the U.K.'s Queen's English Society formed 40 years ago to protect language against poor spelling and grammar, is closing up shop because too few people care, claiming there is not enough interest in its work in the tweet and txt msg age.

Another Putmanite added this, variously attributed to Thomas Jefferson and others: "I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word only one way."

As word geeks to varying degrees of necessity here, I'm not sure how we're to take this.....