Only two of the 38 named the g, and only one of those was able to draw it correctly. (The letter “A” also has two lower case forms: The so-called one-story a, or a circle with a vertical line ...

If you glossed right over that, notice that the letter has two closed loops ... only one person could accurately draw this form of the lowercase “g,” known as the double-story or loop-tail ...

In fact, many of the adults they tested weren’t aware that there are two versions of a lowercase G at all and don’t know how to draw the less ... 38 adults to list letters that have two ...

Picture: Milton & King “What we think may be happening here is that we learn the shapes of most letters in part because we have to write them in school. ‘Looptail g’ is something we’re ...