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9. As reetprod by Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, the oderr
the ltteres in a wrod are wittern deosn’t mttaer; the
olny citcaril emnelet is that the frist and lsat ltteres
are cerroclty pclaed. The rset can be cletemoply
sleracmbd and you siltl won’t hvae any plerobm
rineadg it. Tihs is bsuacee the hamun biarn raeds
wrdos as a wolhe, not erevy induadivil lteter by isetlf.
Or
As reported by Cambridge University, the order
the letters in a word are written doesn’t matter;the
only critical element is that the first and last le ters
are correctly placed. The rest can be completely
scrambled and you still won’t have any problem
reading it. This is because the human brain reads
words as a whole, not every individual letter by itself.

10. The English aristocracy wasn’t able to speak English
for more than a century. William the Conqueror,
at 43 years of age, tried to learn English, but he
threw in the towel. He wasn’t enamored of the land
he had conquered in 1066. He didn’t visit England
at all for five y ars while in power, and spent half
of his reign in France. Of course, French-speaking
noblemen were chosen to rule the land.In less than
20 years of England being ruled by the Normans,
virtually all of the regional religious institutions
spoke French. The noblemen brought large retinues
with them. They were then followed by French
merchants, who surely mixed bilingually with the
English merchants. On the other hand, ambitious
Englishmen would have studied French to be
successful in life and to be able to speak
to the new rulers. English incorporated
10,000 French words in the century reign (n.):
reino
after the Norman invasion. There is

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