St Gall, I think it was, at any rate, one of the peripatetic Celtic Christians who reconverted Europe, was notable for being able to read without speaking the words, a hitherto unknown skill. And I have heard that it was the Irish monks who inventedwritingtextswithgapsbetweenwordsthusmakingthemmorereadable.

Forget linebreaks - without word breaks, where would we be?

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