Why English Is the Only Major Language That Capitalizes ‘I’
Texting habits have gotten us used to typing out everything in lowercase letters and even dropping punctuation. But when you’re using standard grammatical rules, the stand-alone “I” gets capitalized — autocorrect may even do this for you when you text. This rule is actually pretty unusual, as English is the
only major language that capitalizes its first-person singular pronoun. Capitalizing proper nouns, such as the names of people and places, is not uncommon in other languages, but English takes it a step further by giving one very ordinary pronoun a distinction that its counterparts elsewhere don’t get. Is it a...
