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