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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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