JasonM -> RE: Side fret Markers (Jun. 3 2019 14:02:45)
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With just a 7th fret marker, Using a capo hasn’t been an issue like I thought it would be. According to dictionary .com: How did we start capitalizing I? It turns out that this unusual convention was a bit of an accident. In Old and Middle English, the word for I was closer to its German cousin, ich, and it was often spelled ic. At this point, the word was not capitalized. However, the pronunciation changed over time and so did the spelling, losing the consonant C. At first, the new word, i, was left lowercase. By the time Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the late 1300s, I, the personal pronoun, was slightly taller than its lowercase equivalent. From that point on, it was typically capitalized.
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