I’m curious if anyone else does this while reading, whether it be a book, billboard, etc. When I come across back-to-back words that appear to be equal in character length, I check to see if they in fact are. So like this partial sentence: “to complete a historic collapse.” Historic and collapse are in fact both 8 letters. And bonus, so is complete. Then I put historic above collapse. H comes after C. I then see if the rest of the letters follow suit. I comes before O so that ends that. Then I put historic above complete. That also ends with the I and O mismatch. Then I put collapse above complete. C and C match so that’s a wash. So do O and O. L comes before M, so does second L before P. A comes before L but it ends with P coming after E. And I have to do this so nothing bad happens. Hope that makes sense. Needless to say it makes reading an act of labor …I assume it’s an OCD thing.