An open list of 106 words by ruzuzu.
- Turkey appears on 2 other lists
- turkey appears on 35 other lists and has 3 comments
- China appears on 2 other lists
- china appears on 34 other lists and has 17 comments
- August appears on 1 other list
- august appears on 90 other lists and has 2 comments
- Bill appears on 1 other list
- bill appears on 35 other lists and has 5 comments
- Catholic
- catholic appears on 41 other lists
- Ionic appears on 1 other list
- ionic appears on 12 other lists
- Job
- job appears on 27 other lists and has 2 comments
- Lent
- lent appears on 14 other lists and has 6 comments
- Polish appears on 2 other lists and has 3 comments
- polish appears on 27 other lists and has 4 comments
- Pole
- pole appears on 13 other lists
- Reading
- reading appears on 22 other lists
- Lima
- lima appears on 6 other lists
- Nice
- nice appears on 47 other lists and has 15 comments
- Scone
- scone appears on 26 other lists and has 1 comment
- March
- march appears on 21 other lists
- May
- may appears on 30 other lists and has 2 comments
- Mosaic
- mosaic appears on 35 other lists and has 2 comments
- Alpine appears on 3 other lists
- alpine appears on 10 other lists
- Arabic appears on 2 other lists
- arabic appears on 6 other lists
- Ares appears on 2 other lists
- ares appears on 11 other lists
- Calorie
- calorie appears on 3 other lists
- Cancer appears on 2 other lists
- cancer appears on 29 other lists and has 2 comments
- Celt
- celt appears on 4 other lists
- Cologne appears on 1 other list
- cologne appears on 2 other lists
- Cuban
- cuban appears on 3 other lists
- Fiat appears on 1 other list
- fiat appears on 44 other lists and has 14 comments
- Gallic appears on 2 other lists
- gallic appears on 5 other lists
- God appears on 7 other lists and has 5 comments
- god appears on 48 other lists and has 2 comments
- German appears on 2 other lists
- german appears on 10 other lists and has 2 comments
- Herb
- herb appears on 20 other lists and has 11 comments
- Italic appears on 2 other lists
- italic appears on 9 other lists
- Roman appears on 3 other lists
- roman appears on 13 other lists and has 1 comment
- Life appears on 1 other list and has 2 comments
- life appears on 71 other lists and has 4 comments
- Time appears on 2 other lists
- time appears on 84 other lists and has 8 comments
- Mass
- mass appears on 26 other lists
- Mousehole
- mousehole appears on 3 other lists and has 1 comment
- Natal
- natal appears on 7 other lists
- Piedmont
- piedmont appears on 10 other lists
- Rainier appears on 1 other list
- rainier appears on 6 other lists
- Mesa appears on 1 other list
- mesa appears on 16 other lists
- Slough
- slough appears on 45 other lists and has 6 comments
- Tangier
- tangier appears on 3 other lists
- Art appears on 3 other lists
- art appears on 58 other lists and has 7 comments
- Russian appears on 1 other list
- russian appears on 8 other lists
- Mobile appears on 1 other list
- mobile appears on 23 other lists and has 11 comments
- Morocco appears on 1 other list
- morocco appears on 17 other lists and has 3 comments
- Danish appears on 1 other list
- danish appears on 9 other lists
- Scotch appears on 2 other lists
- scotch appears on 20 other lists and has 5 comments
- Welsh appears on 1 other list
- welsh appears on 9 other lists
- Frank
- frank appears on 30 other lists and has 4 comments
- lee appears on 38 other lists and has 2 comments
- Lee
- japan appears on 19 other lists
- Japan appears on 4 other lists
- Chile appears on 3 other lists and has 25 comments
- chile appears on 14 other lists and has 5 comments
ruzuzu The current definition over on capitonym has "meaning" and "sound." I've edited the description for this list accordingly.
The fox is always right. Nov 5, 2010
ruzuzu I've been thinking that I should have used a different name for this list--"Capital Capitals" or something....
The lack of capitalization in YOW made it possible to ignore proper nouns, trademarks, etc. (everything was equal). Now that we can differentiate, it seemed as if we needed a triage unit to start to deal with the pairs of words where capitalization actually makes a difference (or at least the ones that bug us the most).
Respectfully submitted,
Cap N. Hand Nov 19, 2009
rolig I would question only the inclusion of commercial names, such as Fiat, Time, and Life, which would basically mean you would include any word that had a magazine or newspaper named after it (Look/look, Times/times, Sun/sun etc.). Nov 19, 2009
rolig Great list, Ru! I love "Tangier/tangier" – never considered that before. Nov 19, 2009
milosrdenstvi As a young child I was amused by a joke about an accident in a restaurant, involving the fall of Turkey, the ruin of Greece, and the breaking up of China... Nov 17, 2009
ruzuzu I know... in my heart I felt I was cheating by going with the current Wikipedia definition: "a word that changes its meaning (and sometimes pronunciation)."
Wordnik doesn't have a definition for capitonym up yet. Nov 17, 2009
sionnach But, but, but... I thought to be a capitonym the pronunciation of the word in question has to change, depending on the capitalization status. See, e.g., my necessarily skimpier version of this list. March may not apply to my august list. Nov 17, 2009