The Johns Hopkins study had three parts. First, the researchers asked 38 adults to list letters that have two lowercase versions. Of the 38 participants, only two people listed the letter G.

When it comes to print, the letter "G" has two lowercase versions: the “opentail,” which looks like a fishhook and is commonly used in handwriting, ...

In the first, 38 adult subjects were asked to name any letters they could think of that have two different lower-case forms in print. Only two of the 38 named the g, and only one of those was able ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered that most people can’t identify the correct form of a lower case letter ‘g’, despite seeing it daily in printed material such as newspapers, books and even online.

While the news of a second form of "g" we see all the time but can't actually write out may seem like a fun, minorly mind-blowing phenomenon, it raises some intriguing questions about how writing ...