{"id":11503,"date":"2012-06-12T07:25:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T14:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=11503"},"modified":"2012-06-12T23:11:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T06:11:48","slug":"words-that-change-their-meaning-depending-on-whether-the-first-letter-is-capitalized-are-capitonyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/words-that-change-their-meaning-depending-on-whether-the-first-letter-is-capitalized-are-capitonyms\/","title":{"rendered":"Words that Change Their Meaning Depending on Whether the First Letter is Capitalized are &#8220;Capitonyms&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capitonyms.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11504\" title=\"capitonyms\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capitonyms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capitonyms.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/capitonyms-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are some words that change their meaning based on whether the first letter is capitalized or not.\u00a0 These words are collectively known as &#8220;capitonyms&#8221;.\u00a0 These capitonyms are particularly troublesome when they appear at the beginning of a sentence, as there is no way, based on the single word alone, to tell which meaning is being referred to.\u00a0 Examples of these include: August vs. august (month vs majestic or venerable); Calorie vs. calorie (1000 calories vs. 1 calorie); Moon vs. moon (the Earth&#8217;s natural satellite vs. any natural satellite); Divine vs. divine (related to God vs. to discover by intuition or insight); etc.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"tittle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/what-the-dot-over-the-lower-case-letter-i-is-called\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some words that change their meaning based on whether the first letter is capitalized or not.\u00a0 These words are collectively known as &#8220;capitonyms&#8221;.\u00a0 These capitonyms are particularly troublesome when they appear at the beginning of a sentence, as there is no way, based on the single word alone, to tell which meaning is being referred to.\u00a0 Examples of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2732,702,1236],"class_list":["post-11503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-capitonym","tag-language-facts","tag-word-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11506,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11503\/revisions\/11506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}