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The English first-person singular nominative pronoun is 'I', pronounced and always written with a capital letter. Because the diphthong /aɪ/ developed from a Middle English long vowel, it is called 'long' ⟨i⟩ in traditional English grammar. This pattern arose for basically the same reason that lowercase ⟨i⟩ acquired a dot: so it wouldn't get lost in manuscripts before the age of printing: The capitalized “I” first showed up about 1250 in the northern and midland dialects of England, according to the Chambers Dictionary of Etymology. [ ] The letter, ⟨i⟩, is the fifth most common letter in the.