A linguistic concept that just occurred to me
Why do we capitalize "I," but not "me?"
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exexec · 70-79, C
Now I'm curious about when capitalizing "I" became standard. So I Googled it. In Old English, the word was "ic" which was shortened to "i". The lower case "i" would become lost in manuscripts, so they started using the capital "I" in the 1300's. "Me" was two letters and never lost in manuscripts, so it was no capitalized. The printing press completed the standardization.