Talk:Capitonym

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[edit] Capitals in the uncapitalised column

I note with incredulity that several words in the column of examples of words that should not carry capitals, had them. I am amazed that someone let this through. I have fixed them - "cuban", "german" and so on. Liam Proven (talk) 11:42, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Poetic usage

"..., 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)

If it "certainly does exist" somebody needs to find a legitimate citation. I am unable to find any legit sources to back up this word. The alternative would be to bring this word into common usage. I've never heard it before. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.91.137.155 (talk) 23:24, 21 November 2008 (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;

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)