Answer: Why do we capitalize "I" in English?

[pinkeuphoria1]

Have you ever wondered why we capitalize “I” I’ll be honest and say I haven’t. At least not during the last … 10 years. It’s become such a habit to write "I" without giving it a second thought. Yes, it does seem wrong when I don’t see "I" capitalized, but I never stop to think about the reason why not capitalizing it is actually considered wrong.

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Comments

[el1ie]

Fascinating - thanks. I do have to say though, I've been typing that long it's impossible not to capitalize, I'd be twice as long trying not to!

[semisweetsoul]

I can't either. It's impossible for me to write it lowercase! It just looks sloppy and plain wrong to my eyes.

Thanks for that article. Quite interesting. :)