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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a recent study delightfully titled “The Devil’s in the ‘g’-Tails,” researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that most ...

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Did you know there were two versions of the lowercase letter g? There is the one we typically write, with an open hook to the left. Then there’s the typeset version with a curly tail that appears in ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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.