OT: what's with the 'i'?

[Matthew Miller]

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-pronoun-i-always-be-capitalized

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