Why is "I" capitalized

Safwat · **مرسل:** السبت فبراير 23, 2008 3:04 pm

Why is "I" capitalized?

[english]"Ego has nothing to do with the capitalization of the pronoun I. Printing and handwriting have everything to do with it. In Middle English the first person was ich--with a lower-case i. When this was shortened to i, manuscript writers and printers found it often got lost or attached to a neighboring word. So the reason for the capital I is simply to avoid confusion and error. Of course, some writers refuse to be bound by this convention. Two of our favorites, the poet e.e. cummings and Don Marquis, author of archy and mehitabel, both favored the lower-case i" (Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins 303).[/english]

Roula · **مرسل:** السبت فبراير 23, 2008 4:08 pm

Safwat,
Thanks for you Safwat.....
Actually these are new informations....

esp this..

اقتباس:

Two of our favorites, the poet e.e. cummings and Don Marquis, author of archy and mehitabel, both favored the lower-case i"

thanks again..

Adnan · **مرسل:** الاثنين فبراير 25, 2008 12:39 am

It is new information

اقتباس:

informations

Roula,
is it uncountable

سنا · **مرسل:** الاثنين فبراير 25, 2008 11:45 am

اقتباس:

poet e.e. cummings and Don Marquis, author of archy and mehitabel, both favored the lower-case i"

just like me!!

Yara · **مرسل:** الخميس فبراير 28, 2008 4:24 am

thank you Safwat for these new and valuable info

Hiba.Sh · **مرسل:** الخميس فبراير 28, 2008 6:54 am

Safwat
Thanks for this informaion

اقتباس:

So the reason for the capital I is simply to avoid confusion and error. ,

Safwat · **مرسل:** الخميس فبراير 28, 2008 11:58 am

Safwat, Hiba.Sh, Yara, arty, Adnan, Roula,
I hope you interested them

Safwat · **مرسل:** الجمعة مارس 07, 2008 11:35 pm

Roula, Hiba.Sh, Yara, arty, Adnan,

WELCOME ALL

Tami · **مرسل:** السبت مارس 08, 2008 12:39 am

Safwat,
God bless you...
Really now I know why "I" is capitalized...

rami_n01 · **مرسل:** السبت مارس 08, 2008 4:27 am

You know what, I've never thought about it and I've never knew that there is a cause behinde its useage as capitalized.

Thank you

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