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Originally Posted by crich70
Part of that is a quirk of the human brain. As long as the 1st and last letters of a word are in the right place we can often scan over a sentence and make sense of a given word even if it is mis-spelled. Our brain fills in the right word for us. i.e. "A dog is man's best fiend." rather than "A dog is man's best friend." since the 1st and last letters of fiend are the same as the word friend we might easily scan over it and unconsciously correct the error. On the other hand if we find that a wrong word that isn't in context is used in a sentence we find ourselves jarred out of whatever we're reading.
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Well you need more then just the first letter...
examples:
A dog is man's best fd
A dog is man's best fxxd
A dog is man's best ftierd
A dog is man's best fneird
and so on. Minor errors the brain auto corrects on the fly, but you do need more then just first and last letter
