permuting letters and fairy tales

[Benji York]

Carl Banks wrote:
> My thought is that, the brain doesn't read the word as a whole as they
> claim, but neither does it pay too much attention to the _exact_
> ordering.

The basics of written word recognition theory are laid out in a good 
paper at "Microsoft typography".

See http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ctfonts/WordRecognition.aspx or 
http://tinyurl.com/4qrnk for the full paper.
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Benji York
benji at benjiyork.com