Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the...
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Funny how often that kind of slip is mentally invisible to the person who makes it - I had to reread the post and your comment about four times before I spotted what you were getting at, and I probably would not have picked it up that rapidly had you not put the conflict in bold.
though one experiment that was done a while ago, shows some interesting things, let me show you.
You see It deos not mtetarr the odrer of the ltetres in any sentcnee, all taht mrttems is the fcat the fsirt and lsat lretets are in the crorcet pacle, and terhe are the crorcet ltetres used. If you sictk by tihs rlue tehn the rdaineg of ahtiying is alcltauy esay.