Friday, February 8

The Capitalization of I

A good friend of mine actually thought of this and vocalized it before I did, but it's a good point.

But really, why do we capitalize I?
It's just a pronoun.
We don't capitalize he.
Or she.
Or they.
So why I?
And it's just a letter.
We don't capitalize "a".

This has actually been bothering me for some time, so y'all have got any ideas, I'd love to hear them.

4 comments:

  1. I've been wondering about that too! English is the only language I know where it's capitalized. For instance, in German, a lot of words (all nouns for example and sometimes in letters also the term for you) are capitalized, but never the German I.

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    1. Whoa, the complete opposite?? That is strange, being that a lot of English is Germanic. . .

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  2. good question makes one wonder doesn't it

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    1. Yep, sure does. Not like much else in English is normal, though.

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