Do you see what I see?

[jeffdwright2001]

The "Fez Flubbs and Cusses on Air" thread reminded me that there are times when my eyes sees one thing and my mind overrides it.

Example: There is a generic "Ritz" cracker in our local markets called "Applause". Unfortunately, I don't associate applause with a type of food. Consequently, everytime I see the box, I read it "Applesauce".

This thread probably won't go very far, but I'm curious to know if others out there have similar experiences with differences between the actual words/sounds and what their mind tells them.



I know it makes no sense, but I read it incorrectly almost everytime I pass them in the aisle.



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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt'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.

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[blakjeezis]

On the supermarket theme, whenever I see Bran'ola bread, I always read it as Brainola.

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[Freakshow]

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when I read that I see wads wads wads.

But i'm left-handed and my brains flips and inverts all kinds of things.

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[East Side Dave]

I'm not sure if this will qualify, but sometimes when I'm getting gas at a Getty's, I think of "The Golden Girls!"


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When I see a sign outside a church that says "Jesus Saves" I first see it as "Kill Your Neighbor Now!!"

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[nickeye]

THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt'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.

Amzanighuh?



I've seen this a few times and read a little about it, but still don't buy it. Besides the fact that the author of this email misspelled "research" (with two H's and two C's) and "doesn't" (with an extra T), would you be able to identify "Cidgmbrae" as easily as you can the way it appears here ("Cmabrigde")? Probably not.

Try this on Google:

"Cmbarigde" --yields-- > Did you mean: "Cambridge"?
"Cidgmbrae" --yields-- > Your search - "Cidgmbrae" - did not match any documents.

Google probably uses a similar algorithm as our brains do: the first and last letters are very important, but there seems to be a weight assigned to the positions in-between. If individual letters stray too far from their intended positions ("Cidgmbrae"), the word becomes indecipherable. But if the letters remain close enough to their positions in the actual word ("Cmabrigde"), the weighted score of the word you read is close to the weight of a word you know, and you (and Google) make the association.


Back on topic: Whenever I see a sign for "East Hanover", New Jersey, I always see "Hangover".


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[East Side Dave]

There's a place called Cheesequake in New Jersey....I see it as Cheesecake! Sometimes I even drive there, but guess what? It's just a place with regular roads and houses....it's not a town made out of cheesecake at all like we all thought!


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[Hottub]

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[Mike Teacher]

All the signs in and around Devon, Pa remind me of Devo.

And who can forget that lovely Pennsylvania town: Intercourse. I always imagined someone hitch-hiking to that town holding up a sign...

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I always imagined someone hitch-hiking to that town holding up a sign...

The only rides to Intercourse are that of horse and buggy!

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[GodsFavoriteMan]

There's a mom and pop video shop here named PICK A FLICK.

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[Reephdweller]

It's strange but every single time I saw that thread about the Fat Darrell sammich in New Jersey I for some reason thought it was spelled Darnell and would even call it the Fat Darnell. I don't know why though.

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[sr71blackbird]

When I see a sign outside a church that says "Jesus Saves"


Route 110 by the Huntington Quads right? By Duryea Rd? Or, as I call it.. Diarreah Rd

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[Hottub]

No, the Hawthorne Gospel Church on 208, halfway up "mile-hill"!

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[blakjeezis]

There's a mom and pop video shop here named PICK A FLICK.


There's one on Tonelle Ave in North Bergen called "VIDEO FLIXX", but the space between the L and the I is so tiny that I always read it as "VIDEO FUXX". I'm actually convinced it's intentional.


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[reeshy]

Route 110 by the Huntington Quads right? By Duryea Rd? Or, as I call it.. Diarreah Rd


Jesus Christ...That's the one!!!!!!!!

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I knew it! Remember when the mail truck crashed through that church?

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THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt'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.

Amzanighuh?
this has been disproven. it only works under cetain circumstances.

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