Despite seeing it every day though, psychologists at Johns Hopkins University have found that most people can't recognize, ...

The letter "G" is one of several English letters that has multiple lowercase versions.

Unlike most letters, "g" has two lowercase print versions. There's the open tail one that most everyone uses when writing by hand; it looks like a loop with a fishhook hanging from it.

“They don’t entirely know what this letter looks like, even though they can read it,” said co-author Gali Ellenblum in a news release. She points out that this isn’t the case for most other letters.

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.

So distinct is this “g” that Google chose the lowercase rather than uppercase letter for its longtime favicon —the little icon that appears in your browser tab. But, look closely.