What The F?

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How many times does the letter F appear. No spoliers please if you have seen it before.

6

6? am i missing something here?

umm 3?

3 ?

Clunks answer demonstrates why I posted this.

edit.....and mcmiller's

again 6

Yeah word puzzles like that don't work on me after me degree (Linguistics) ;)

6

hmmm explain plz i think im being a bit thick here :undecided

oh....kasavien....the thread is only a few mins old....not yet.....

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Originally Posted by mcmiller

hmmm explain plz i think im being a bit thick here :undecided

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there is no explaining to do....just count em

don't spoil it yet.........

yup, for some reason the human brain doesn't bother to count small words like "of"

The other good one is:

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

:D

There's a bit more on the latter over here: http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000840.php

:lol: yeah the "of's" got me. so is it not 6 then?

lol thats clever

try printing it out...it makes it far harder......win a few pints down the pub..........

lol i ust tried it on my mates lol none of them got it

Iv'e seen it before..... very very clever :)

6...

problem is I'm too stupid to ignore the other f's, joys of dislexia

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Originally Posted by TheAnimus

problem is I'm too stupid to ignore the other f's, joys of dislexia

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dyslexia ? :o

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Originally Posted by Agent

dyslexia ? :o

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:undecided:

heh

I was too lazy to play your game. I just hit ctrl+f and then counted as firefox stopped on the different fs.

lmao you cant get lazier than that... wow that is smart, u gotta think outside the box

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Originally Posted by Stoo

yup, for some reason the human brain doesn't bother to count small words like "of"

The other good one is:

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

:D

There's a bit more on the latter over here: http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000840.php

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Yeah we don't necessarily read the word as a whole, more the minimal unit of sound (phoneme) in relation to the minimal unit of meaning (morpheme). The phoneme's tend (in general terms) to be syllabic in nature. As 'of' doesn't contribute greatly to meaning and is also a light syllable in that sentence the brain misses them out :)

In its very broadest and non-technical terms :)

I've seen those before - funny how the first time I counted the "f" in the last "of" but not the previous two.

The f in "of" sounds like a v.

Somone I know proved below to not be always true and they wrote something which
used the rules and you cant read it like you can below. I will try and find it.

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe.