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Eric Rose Regular user Franklin, IN 160 Posts |
Forgive me if this one has appeared here - I just entered this area for the first time.
What English (American) word changes its pronunciation when it is capitalized? |
bvbernard New user North Vancouver, BC, Canada 95 Posts |
Nice?
Bruce |
Eric Rose Regular user Franklin, IN 160 Posts |
Hmmmmm. Hadn't come up with that one. There is another....
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awfulawful New user Boston, MA 19 Posts |
Polish
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pxs Loyal user London 284 Posts |
See Dr Chutney's Words in Common thread below ...
(Other examples he mentions: Seat and Job) |
Eric Rose Regular user Franklin, IN 160 Posts |
AwfulAwful got the one I was considering. Thanks for the heads up, pxs.
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Scott Cram Inner circle 2678 Posts |
How about:
AMEND [Cartoonist] ARES ASKEW AUGUST BAD BEGIN BREATHED [creator of Bloom County and Outland] BUND CLEMENT [street in San Francisco] COLON CONCORD [New Hampshire capital] DEGAS EMBARRASS [capitalized is a river in Eastern Illinois and a city and a river in Minnesota pronounced (aum-bro); it is also spelled EMBARRAS] ESPY [word player] EWE FOREST [town in Belgium] FORGET [tennis player] GUY [Flemish ruler] HERB ILL [river in Austria] JUBILATE JUNKER KIN [Manchu ancestors] LEVY LIMA MAGDALEN [uncapitalized means "a repentant prostitute"; capitalized, it is a college in Oxford and sounds like "maudlin."] MALE MANES MILLET [French painter] MOBILE MOLE [Sudanese people] MUSTER [tennis player] NATAL NESTLE [chocolate maker] OUR [river in Belgium] PLACER QUICHE [department in Guatemala] RAINIER RAVEL READING SAID SCONE [town in UK and Australia] SLOUGH [city west of London (not far from Reading)] TANG [Chinese dynasty] TANGIER VITAL [Palestinian author] XI [river in China] WORMS ZEMI [Naga people] |
The Mighty Fool Inner circle I feel like a big-top tent having 2140 Posts |
Jeez....I think mabye there's more than one.
Everybody wants to beleive.....we just help them along.
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