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October 13, 2003
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde...
If you enjoyed the "According to a Cambridge researcher..." parlor trick that went around a while ago, you may also enjoy this page, which has a lot more useful stuff. Matt Davis provides some very interesting info about what's true and what's not necessarily true, and also a summary of what may have been the source of the theory. You can also find the same text in a whole bunch of different languages.
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What is interesting about this phenomenon is the way in which the original "English university" somehow got transmogrified into Cambridge. In fact, as Matt Davis's site says, the research was done at Nottingham by Graham Rawlinson in 1976. Dr Rawlinson explained this on the Typographica blog on 19 September (see http://typographi.ca/000687.php ) and has now put a further summary up on the web. And yet the incorrect version is still circulating, and getting further elaborated all the time. This is how urban myths work, I suppose! -- Posted by on October 15, 2003 01:00 PM
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