Why does the brain skip over repeated “the” words in sentences?

Question

For example, in this sentence by the the time you are done reading you will have already skipped over the double “the”.

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Answer 1

Everyone doesn’t read this way but some people do. I do. It’s a form of speed reading. You don’t need to read all words in a sentence/paragraph/page to fully comprehend. Some people learn that quickly and are able to speed read.

Sometimes when I’m reading aloud to my classroom and I’m interested in the story, the kids catch me skipping over words and sometimes even replacing words. Words that aren’t important to comprehend and understand the text.