capitonym (KAP-i-toh-NIM), noun.  A word that changes pronunciation and meaning when it is capitalized.  As in the following poems:
      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.
-- AWAD, website
Eclectic quotations accumulating in Hell's Kitchen, NY, USA.
 
 


