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"This is a highly unusual paragraph. Do you know why? If you try to find what is odd about it too quickly, it probably won't occur to you. Study it without hurrying and you may think of what it is. Good luck."

It appears as a problem in the exercise of a book I'm reading in the chapter titled "An Application of Statistics -- The Breaking of Ciphers and Codes".

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HINT: Googl would tll you if you wr to sarch on th obvious.

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    I would hav nvr found it. – Berci Nov 20 '12 at 09:35
  • If it were written in code, something about the way the paragraph's written would make it difficult to crack... – Acid2 Nov 20 '12 at 09:42
  • @Acid2: How so? – Brian M. Scott Nov 20 '12 at 09:42
  • @BrianM.Scott: I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be asking here. Something tells me you two don't know what's really unusual either. – Acid2 Nov 20 '12 at 09:45
  • @Acid2: There are at least six of us who know. I gave you a huge hint in my answer $-$ the misspellings are there for a reason $-$ and I even told you how you could easily find out. Oh, by the way: it’s not enciphered or encoded. It’s plaintext, but plaintext with a statistically very unusual characteristic that would mildly hamper someone attempting to read a version of it enciphered in a simple substitution cipher. – Brian M. Scott Nov 20 '12 at 09:48
  • Oh! I s now. :) – Acid2 Nov 20 '12 at 09:56
  • AHA now I gt it. – coffeemath Nov 20 '12 at 09:57
  • @Acid2: There you go! :-) (What I searched on was the first sentence of the paragraph.) – Brian M. Scott Nov 20 '12 at 09:58
  • @BrianM.Scott I tried that before asking here. Didn't find anything relevant. I figured it would be difficult to find anything because the book it comes from is quite old and nobody would've read it recently and have said anything about it on the internet so decided to ask instead. I guess I'm not very good with making Google searches. – Acid2 Nov 20 '12 at 10:07
  • @Acid2: That’s interesting: when I started typing the sentence into Firefox’s search window, Google actually suggested the search this is a most unusual paragraph riddle. – Brian M. Scott Nov 20 '12 at 10:11
  • Hm, I knew something of the kind was going on. I started looking for letters hoping that one of them is missing. Found an A, a B, a C. Then I got lazy and looked at your answer ) – Dan Shved Nov 20 '12 at 10:13
  • @BrianM.Scott Oh you typed it and followed the suggestions. I opted for the quick and lazy way of copying and pasting the paragraph between inverted commas to get an exact result... there were no exact matches and I just gave up! – Acid2 Nov 20 '12 at 10:39