Why do we capitalize "I"?

In this episode, Amanda and Dave discuss why the pronoun "I" is capitalized. They also discuss tidbits about typography, tittles and jots, and the origin of "uppercase" and "lowercase".

SOME NOTES: As discussed in the episode, this is the Anglo-Saxon letter "thorn" in uppercase and lowercase: (Þ, þ). We mentioned how confusing the word "minuscule" would look with no tittles, but a better example of this is the word "minimum."

Check this out:

https://i.imgur.com/TeXWTll.jpg .

Also, here's a link to the pictograph of "yod":

http://qabalah.nz/2017/02/16/yod/ .

Check out the Greek letter "iota": https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Iota_uc_lc.svg

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