On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 05:41:58PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
my first/last two pennies: "very early on", typesetters had difficulty telling the difference between "i" and "j" since manuscripts were written in longhand.
I heard this in grade school, tho, so it may have been made up to keep students quiet.
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/7986/why-should-the-first-person-...