The letter "I"

So, a couple of days ago on my keyboard at home there was something stuck underneath the letter "i". And because it was something fairly large (I think it was the tip of a colored pencil) I couldn't push the button far enough down for it to register that it should type and so I was i-less while trying to do my homework. And I had never really realized until that day how important this letter is in the English language. Already in this paragraph I've used 29 i's.

I was trying to write an e-mail to my sister and I had to compose an entire missive without i's (which, although quite challenging, was actually rather enjoyable, I suggest you try it sometime) and the whole time I was thinking to myself, "What is up with this? "I" just isn't that important. But it is.

Because I had somehow gotten onto this train of thought I started doing some research about i's, so you, poor poor reader, now get to learn everything that I learned about this letter. Although you probably already knew some of it. :)

~I is the 9th letter in the English alphabet

~The dot that is over the lower case i is called a tittle (the dot over the j is called a jot)

~Most often when i is written in code they use numbers to represent it instead of other letters or symbols as they do for other letters of the alphabet

~When people are playing word games or games with the alphabet the first words that generally come to their mind for i are ice cream and igloo (why do we associate cold things with i? that's just my question)

~Unless the alphabet game is animal-based and then the animal that people almost always choose is "iguana"

~I is the 5th most commonly used letter in the English alphabet (after e, t, a, and o)

Yeah, sorry I made you sit through that, but for some reason this last week 'i' has taken a special hold in my brain and I thought that if maybe I got it out, it would leave me alone. Let's hope it works. :)