Important!

[Count Duckula]

Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.

Isn't this only if you learned how to read phonetically? I was taught to look at individual letters, then slowly working up to consonant pairs and groups of letters, all the while studying the rules on why English sounds the way it does. People who learn by the word have problems when encountering new words because they aren't sure on the pronunciation. People who learn by the letter, however, don't really have this problem because their minds have gotten so used to analyzing letters and patterns that they can guess at how to say a new word just by the way it reads and how the rules go.

It took two readings out loud to understand your post, Swiss.