Why is the letter "I" in the word I capitalized?

elizabethmc

To make it a distinct word and avoiding misreading handwritten manuscripts. http://www.yaelf.com/aueFAQ/mifwhyicapitalized.shtml Sep 24 03, 5:06 PM

sequoianoir

I was just about to say something similar http://www.alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxwhyisi.html Sep 24 03, 5:18 PM

Hamlet.

In Middle English, the first person singular was expressed with "ich", eventually shortened to "i" in the lower case. But printers encountered difficulties setting the lower case "i". The letter would be dropped unintentionally or run together with the words that followed or preceded it. So the original purpose of capitalizing the "I" was to make it stand out from other single letters and provide it with the status as a whole word... Sep 24 03, 10:35 PM

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