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.

Despite seeing it in nearly every book, newspaper, and email message, people are essentially unaware of the more common version of the lowercase print letter g, Johns Hopkins researchers have found.

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