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keeping up on your prescription, I see...
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Some captonyms are naughty. Like French and soixant neuf.
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>A word that changes
I refuse to accept the foolish notion that polish and Polish are the same word.
Well then, what's your verdict on my capitonym?
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are there not two pronunciations of the lowercase?
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Time out for a joke. In my home town over seventy years ago there was a large common with two way traffic around it. The traffic got heavy enough the town suddenly made it one way counter-clockwise. A motorist returning from a vacation in Maine didn't notice the signs and started to go clockwise
as he had many times before. A prototypical small town cop
blew his whistle, and stopped him right in front of the hotel, with all the loafers sitting in rocking chairs on the big front porch for an audience.
"Where in hell are you from?" bellowed the cop.
Timidly, the motorist replied: "I'm from Philadelphia, Officer."
"Philadelphia, hey? Then what in hell are you doing with
Pennsylvania plates on your car?"
Dear etaoin: I'm lost too. How did Pennsylvania schools get into the act?
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How did Pennsylvania schools get into the act?
well, I should know better than to try to keep up with Max and Faldage, but here goes:
Max said his capitonym was near a capital, and that it was important to read subject lines. the only thing I could think of was the word "subject", which could be "Subject", like a Royal Subject, and subject, to force upon. notice that the word subject is near the word "Reading" in the subject of Max's post. Reading is the capital of Pennsylvania. (Well, maybe not, I'm guessing here. my geography is terrible. no, that's not true, I just don't know my capitals.) anyway, "subject" can also be used for in schools as something to study, hence two pronunciations for the lowercase "subject".
sadly, it's really not worth all that. it was the best I could do...
<crawling back in a hole now...>
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Sorry, etaoin, I think the capital of PA is Harrisburg. The capital I had in mind was London, 60 km from Reading. I remembered that there was at least one USn Reading, but I went with the original, simply because one of my favourite high school teachers came from Reading, UK.
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<smacks self upside head> I guess I took a ride on the Reading, eh? 
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So how come Pennsylvania lacks s Writing and a Rithmetic?
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So we have reason to believe that reading and Reading are the same word? And it doesn't change pronunciation just because you capitalize it. Reading to your children is a good habit.
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