An illustration of perceptual bias based on the well-known “13” and “B” example. Our example is based on visual similarity between Cyrillic “bl” and Latin “BL” when lower-case.

“If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write” — that’s how Epictetus saw the ideal state of affairs back in the 1st century AD. Having failed to comply with his expectations we all read and write nowadays, so learning a bit more about how we read, would do no harm for us as readers and as writers.