You Will Always Read Like a Child, According to Science

Scientists realized this in 1971 by getting volunteers to throw out the nonsense words that they saw. Participants were asked to decide if a word was real or if it was a pseudoword. While the volunteers quickly tossed out words like "blorb" or "reeko," they lingered over words like "meen," or "lern" or "brane." These pseudohomophones make no more sense than any other nonsense word, but some part of us recognizes the sound and isn't ready to dismiss it. It's called the Pseudohomophone Effect. It should probably be called the sudohomofone effekt, but that might be too on the nose.