In English, there are words that don't seem to be spelled correctly like "pint" (compare this to mint, hint, tint, lint). If these were slower to read aloud than words with a similar spelling, it would suggest that:
a) We use a single word lookup mechanism
b) We use two mechanisms, one that looks up whole words and one that breaks the word into its smaller parts
c) We break words up into their smaller parts only
d) None of the above
Answer: b) We use two mechanisms, one that looks up whole words and one that breaks the word into its smaller parts
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