Many Americans are unaware that there are two correct versions of a lowercase "G" — and even fewer people are able to correctly identify and write each version if they're asked, according to research ...

Despite seeing it millions of times in pretty much every picture book, every novel, every newspaper, and every email message, people are essentially unaware of the more common version of the lowercase ...

Surprise! You see two different forms of the lowercase print letter "g" all the time, but there's a good chance one of them plays tricks on you. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found that a large number of adults were unable to recognise the correct lower case ‘looptail g’ from a line-up. From the four versions pictured ...

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WEBVTT I’M THE ONLY ONE. IT TURNS OUT THERE IS ONE LETTER IN THE ALPHABET THAT MOST AMERICANS CAN READ BUT CANNOT WRITE CORRECTY. RANDI: IT IS THE LETTER G. HERE’S A LOOPTAIL, HERE’S AN OPEN TAIL.

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

This outlier "g" seems to demonstrate that our knowledge of letters can suffer when we do not write them, researchers said. (Google Image) Most people cannot identify or are unaware of the more common ...

Writing in cursive is one of those skills we all learned in elementary school that proved useless, but learning the alphabet is an essential part of literacy. But it seems our curriculum may have ...

Most people would probably laugh if you told them they couldn't pick out a letter they have seen millions of times over. But scientists have discovered that actually one particular letter is baffling ...