Meaning & use
Typoglycemia
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The claimed phenomenon whereby a reader can still understand words in a sentence even when the interior letters of each word are scrambled, as long as the first and last letters stay in place.
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The viral typoglycemia email proved surprisingly readable even though every word had its middle letters jumbled.
Researchers caution that typoglycemia is more of an internet legend than a rigorously proven cognitive effect.
A note on using this word
The term is a modern coinage blending 'typo' with 'glycemia' (blood sugar), and has no real medical meaning despite the scientific-sounding suffix.
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