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Why is the word 'I' capitalised? The only other personal pronoun receiving such treatment is 'Him'. Does this mean English speakers equate themselves with Him? Why don't they say You?
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The answer to be found online is that in manuscripts the small i, on its own, was too easily misread or attached to other words, so they started using a capital I instead. This may be the same reason that Spanish uses ‹y› ("and"), rather than ‹i›, even though y is normally not used as a vowel in Spanish.
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