A page for a little fun!
Spelling? Deos it rlleay mttear? I cdnuolt blveiee
it!
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod
aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal
pweor of the hmuan mnid! Aoccdrnig to a rseaerch
at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deson'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 a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn
mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the
wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
Try making up your own sentences with scrambled
characters, keeping the first and last letters of
each word as they should be, and have some more
fun!
End of Sentence Prepositions?
Apparently this came from public-school doctrine,
derived towards the end of the 18th Century and
based on Latin grammar, which said, "Never end a
sentence with a preposition". Well, if you want
to base your grammar rules on Ancient Italian from
2000 years ago, that is your privilege. But languages
evolve, and for many decades now it has been quite
acceptable: you can end a sentence
with a preposition. In fact, it is something we
should all stand up for. (Oops!)
Winston Churchill
Here is an often-quoted story about
Winston Churchill.
Back in the mid 1900's, an editor had rearranged
one of Winston Churchill’s sentences to avoid ending
it in a preposition, and sent it back to him. The
Prime Minister scribbled this note in reply:
“This is the sort of b***dy nonsense up with
which I will not put!”
– Oxford Companion to the
English Language.
We have much to be thankful for. (Oops, there goes
another one...)
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