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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Alex Bellos

Can you solve it? R y clvr ngh t rd ths sntnc?

Shakespeare

How much information does a sentence need to contain in order to be readable?

That’s the idea behind today’s puzzles. Listed below are ten common phrases or sayings in the English language. Each letter is replaced by a box the same width and height as the letter. Can you work out what they are?

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