Hi, and thanks.

 I think the idea is that we recognise the whole word and instantly reconstruct it on sight. Therefore those words we'd have difficulty recognising because they're new or hard somehow we'd have difficulty reconstructing.

 It's still a good party trick, though, don't you think? And something I'd never suspected, being a bit of an old pedant myself and a stickler for spelling.

 Makes me wonder about dyslexic children, too. If dyslexic is the right word. Those with difficulty in writing words inasmuch as they do things like write them with spelling all mixed up or written backwards or whatever. Seems they could just be working on a higher plane than we are - they recognise immediately that the order of the letters isn't that important as long as they're all there.... or something.


 Anyway thanks for the code and the advice. Your routine runs without any double spacing on my test. You don't plump for a single language so I've still got a choice to make. VB.Net seems the way to go, perhaps, seeing I've got so much Access Basic background.

 Yes, I wasn't saying I couldn't do it or it couldn't be done in Access - just Access couldn't be compiled into a standalone executable back when I used to use it - you had to run an instance of Access. I don't want that.

 And, yes, you say stick with Javascript for something so trivial as this exercise. Well, yes, sure, if you've got Javascript to the required level. But if not then I wouldn't bother learning it just for such trivial exercises! Best to learn a language that can do the trivial as easily as the major.

 thanks again and regards,

 ab