why we don't use capital 'I' in the preposition 'in'
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The first person singular pronoun ‘I’ in English was earlier not written with a capital letter. It is a convention that began later.
English, German, and several other languages belong to the West Germanic group of languages. So, English ‘I’, and German ‘ich’ come from the same source. As a matter of fact, Old English had ic/ich, from which ‘I’ derived. In Old English there were no capital letters. Later, as a convention, the first letter of the first word of the sentence began to be capitalized.
So, in Old English, when ‘I’ was used as the first word, it was capitalized, but when it appeared in the middle of the sentence, it was written as a small letter.
Look at these Old English specimens:
Ic secge eac ðe → I say also to you
ne secge ic na mare embe → not say I no more about
In German, even today, the pronoun ich is written in small letters.
When Caxton began to print books during Middle English period, they had a problem with this pronoun. By then, ic had become simply i. Now, in printing, this pronoun, being a single letter, appeared too insignificant, and so, they started the convention of writing the pronoun i always as I.
That is the reason why, even though the other pronouns ( like ‘we, me, you, they, he, she, him, her etc’ ) are written and printed in small case, the first person singular pronoun ‘I’ began to be capitalized. The other pronouns, not being composed of a single letter, had no problem.