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“capitonyms”
A word that changes its meaning and pronunciation when capitalized; such as, polish and Polish, august and August, concord and Concord and as shown in the two poems below:
Job's Job
In August, an august patriarch
Was reading an ad in Reading, Mass.
Long-suffering Job secured a job
To polish piles of Polish brass.
Herb's Herbs
An herb store owner, name of Herb,
Moved to a rainier Mount Rainier.
It would have been so nice in Nice,
And even tangier in Tangier.
Was reading an ad in Reading, Mass.
Long-suffering Job secured a job
To polish piles of Polish brass.
Moved to a rainier Mount Rainier.
It would have been so nice in Nice,
And even tangier in Tangier.
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capit-, capt-, cap-, cep-, ceps-, chapt-, chef, cip-
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-onym, -onymy, -onymic, -onymically, -onymous, -onymously, -nym
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