Friday Riddle Answer

nudgie
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WINNER IS................. geotina. CONTRATS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RIDDLE: Name a common English word that changes its pronunciation when given a capital letter?

ANSWER: polish / Polish

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  • AnneCan
    AnneCan Member Posts: 3,673 Member
    #2
    Congratulations Geotina!

    Congratulations Geotina!
  • jararno
    jararno Member Posts: 186
    #3
    Other Capitonyms
    The following poems, of unknown origin, are examples of the use of capitonyms:

    Job's Job
    In August, an august patriarch
    Was reading an ad in Reading, Mass.
    Long-suffering Job secured a job
    To polish piles of Polish brass.

    Herb's Herbs
    An herb store owner, name of Herb,
    Moved to a rainier Mount Rainier.
    It would have been so nice in Nice,
    And even tangier in Tangier.

    ( Stolen from Wikipedia! )

    Congratulations to geotina!
  • AnneCan
    AnneCan Member Posts: 3,673 Member
    #4
    jararno said:

    Other Capitonyms
    The following poems, of unknown origin, are examples of the use of capitonyms:

    Job's Job
    In August, an august patriarch
    Was reading an ad in Reading, Mass.
    Long-suffering Job secured a job
    To polish piles of Polish brass.

    Herb's Herbs
    An herb store owner, name of Herb,
    Moved to a rainier Mount Rainier.
    It would have been so nice in Nice,
    And even tangier in Tangier.

    ( Stolen from Wikipedia! )

    Congratulations to geotina!

    Very cool!
    That is really cool; thanks for sharing it!

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