Clever English

"On Spelling"

Fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

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
pclae.

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!

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"Clever English"

I recently remembered a clever piece of English
usage which I heard over 45 years ago. As far as
I know it has not surfaced recently, so here is a
challenge for those of you who believe you are
gifted in the use of our language.

Write a sentence (which makes sense) where
you use the same word consecutively NINE times!!

No cheating now. Try to bust your brains before
peeking at the answer below.

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Here it is

"In the essay competition, the fact that Jones, where
Smith had had 'had', had had "had had", had had
great weight in awarding the English prize.
Received on Mon Mar 31 02:08:41 2008