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posted by chromas on Friday April 06 2018, @06:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the double-storey dept.

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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 print letter "g," Johns Hopkins researchers have found.

Most people don't even know that two forms of the letter -- one usually handwritten, the other typeset -- exist. And if they do, they can't write the typeset one we usually see. They can't even pick the correct version of it out of a lineup.

[...] Unlike most letters, "g" has two lowercase print versions. There's the opentail one that most everyone uses when writing by hand; it looks like a loop with a fishhook hanging from it. Then there's the looptail g, which is by far the more common, seen in everyday fonts like Times New Roman and Calibri and, hence, in most printed and typed material.

Source: http://releases.jhu.edu/2018/04/03/jhu-finds-letter-weve-seen-millions-of-times-yet-cant-write/


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  • (Score: 1) by gtomorrow on Friday April 06 2018, @03:10PM

    by gtomorrow (2230) on Friday April 06 2018, @03:10PM (#663449)

    Mod -1, Out of Character.

    You used to be SO GOOD. I could read your posts hearing Trump's voice in my head, but as of late, less and less.

    Best wishes, Mr. Baldwin.