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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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1828 Definition
I is the ninth letter,and the third vowel of the English Alphabet. We receive it through the Latin and Greek from the Shemitic jod,je, or ye, in Greek iwra,whence our English word jot. The vowel in French, and in most European languages, has the long fine sound which we express by e in me, or ee in seen, meek. This sound we retain in some foreign words which are naturalized in our language, as in machine, intrigue. But in most English words this long sound is shortened, as in holiness, pity, gift; in which words the sound of i coincides with that of y in hypocrite,cycle,and at the end of words, in unaccented syllables, as in holy, glory. It is this short sound of the French and Italian i, which we hear in the pronunciation of been, which we pronounce bin. After l, this letter has sometimes the liquid sound of y, as in million, pronounced milyon. This sound corresponds with that of the Hebrews, as in Joseph, which in Syria is pronounced Yoseph,and with the sound of the German j, as in ja, jahr, that is ya, yahr.
I, pron. [L. ego.] The pronoun of the first person; the word which expresses one's self, or that by which a speaker or writer denotes himself. It is only the nominative case of the pronoun; in the other cases we use me. I am attached to study; study delights me. We often hear in popular language the phrase it is me, which is now considered to be ungrammatical, for it is I. But the phrase may have come down to us from the use of the Welsh mi, or from the French use of the phrase, c'est moi.
In the plural, we use we, and us, which appear to be words radically distinct from I.
Johnson observes that Shakespeare uses I for ay or yes. In this he is not followed, and the use is incorrect.
1913 Definition
I, the ninth letter
of the English alphabet, takes its form from the Phœnician,
through the Latin and the Greek. The Phœnician letter was
probably of Egyptian origin. Its original value was nearly the same
as that of the Italian I, or long e as in mete.
Etymologically I is most closely related to e, y,
j, g; as in dint, dent, beverage,
L. bibere; E. kin, AS. cynn; E. thin, AS.
þynne; E. dominion, donjon,
dungeon.
In English I has two principal vowel sounds: the long sound, as in
p***imacr]ne, ***imacr]ce; and the short sound, as in
p***ibreve]n. It has also three other sounds: (a) That of
e in term, as in thirst. (b) That of
e in mete (in words of foreign origin), as in
machine, pique, regime. (c) That of
consonant y (in many words in which it precedes another
vowel), as in bunion, million, filial,
Christian, etc. It enters into several digraphs, as in
fail, field, seize, feign. friend;
and with o often forms a proper diphtong, as in oil,
join, coin.
See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 98-106. The dot which we place over the small or lower case i dates only from the 14th century. The sounds of I and J were originally represented by the same character, and even after the introduction of the form J into English dictionaries, words containing these letters were, till a comparatively recent time, classed together. In our old authors, I was often
used for ay (or aye), yes, which is pronounced nearly
like it.
As a numeral, I stands for 1, II for 2,
etc.
The nominative
case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a
speaker or writer denotes himself.
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