"Why does I have a capital letter in the middle of a sentence? Great Question. After all, me does not have a capital letter and so why should I? There is a reason. For four hundred years Britain was ruled by Romans and then Germans took over. English began then, as a German language, and everyone said ic, not I. Germans still do, but in England ic shortened to just i. (Back then it rhymed with me.) Little i was hard to see, almost invisible amongst all the other words