Somewhat tangential, but I’m reminded of that “viral” email that made the rounds back in the day.
An e-mail that circulated around the internet about 7 years ago claimed that this is true by stating “Aoccdrnig to rseaerch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a ttoal mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.” It turns out that many of the claims that are made in this e-mail are false; readers do display reading difficulties when reading jumbled text (Rayner et al., 2006, White et al., 2008) and no such research has been conducted at Cambridge University. However, the assumption that the exterior letters are more important than interior letters in lexical processing does seem to hold up in a laboratory setting.