Prior to the airing of the “Nightline” ratings grab (“The Fallen”), Russ at TacJammer posted a list of names of war dead that he thought Mr. Koppel would not be reading. I did not watch the program, but I have no doubt that Russ was exactly right.

THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanig huh?

Perhaps this accounts for why I am such a lousy proofreader.

via John, the Legionnaire Wannabe, and who, with a straight face, claims to have grown up in Hudson County.