Talk:Capitonym

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"..., which this poem must be read in the context of".

Is that correct English? I honestly do not know. And, in any case: is that sensible English? Mariano 05:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Does this word exist?

With Google I only get 2170 hits, and in the first page many are clones of this articles. If this word does exist, then List of case-sensitive English words should be merged here, else this article should be merged there. (Also, I think that we should exclude proper names, else the list could become endless, as I pointed out on Talk:List of case-sensitive English words.) --Army1987 10:47, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

I have performed an exhaustive search, and while the term capitonym is in Richard Lederer's Crazy English, it is not to be found in either the Merriam-Webster or Oxford English dictionaries. I'm not particularly keen on the longer title, but it seems that capitonym is too rare. See here : http://wordsmith.org/chat/lederer.html. Also reading farther, he states that all these words are types of heteronyms, so maybe the whole thing should be moved there.

71.102.186.234 03:54, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

It certainly does exist and, while a type of heteronym, is significantly different. violet/riga (t) 19:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

I completed the merge from List of case-sensitive English words into this page. I was unsure which page to merge into because of the uncertainty that "capitonym" is a real word (see above discussion). I chose this one because it has versions in other languages. Any feedback welcome. -- Techtonic (talk) 18:53, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Astronomical terms

As per the Wikipedia manual of style, should not `Sun', `Moon' and `Earth' be included in this list as within an astronomical context? The logic runs like this;

• `Earth' is the name of a planet, which in a manner akin to the names of the other planets should be refered to with a capital, whereas `earth' is a synonym for dirt, soil, etc.
• A `moon' is a natural satellite, whereas the `Moon' is Luna, Diana, the natural satellite of Earth.
• The `Sun' is specificaly the star of Earth's solar system, whereas a `sun' is merely a star at the centre of a solar system.

Also its disputably not an English word, but `Sol' (the name of Earth's sun) and `sol' (the period of a `day' on Mars) could also qualify. --Neo 19:23, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Have to be careful really. Gwyneth Paltrow named her baby "Apple" but that doesn't mean we should now include that one. Are astronomical names the same? I think this article would be best served by us giving a few examples rather than trying to comprehensibly list all of them. violet/riga (t) 11:48, 28 September 2007 (UTC)