The life of a meme

The second thing from over on David Harris' blog that I found interesting was his meme experiment. Back on the 12th of September he posted:

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

Then, after a few days he changed it very slightly, and then after a few more days changed it again. Then he searched Google to see how many times each appeared. He's also updated the stats a few times since then. The original is still the most linked to, but it is interesting seeing how much the other ones are growing too. Of course, I'm now inflating the original results myself :).

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