you read sentences written in lower case MUCH QUICKER THAN THOSE IN UPPER CASE. Yuo cna aslo wrko out what a sneteecne says, even if some of the letters in the words are jumbled up. And it’s vErY DifFiCuLt tO reAD words which contain a mix of upper- and lower-case letters. The reason for all this is that, when reading, we don’t look at every letter individually, we scan the shape of the words.