A question for the curious...

[J.Doute]

What is the (only?) word in the English language that changes both pronunciation and meaning when it is capitalized?

[Quizmonster]

'Polish' with a capital 'P' means 'from Poland' and 'polish' without the capital means 'rub clean and shiny'. (There may be others.)

[woofgang]

reading and Reading

[darth vader]

Penistone and penistone. the former is a town in Derbyshire, the latter is the shade of colour of your willy

[darth vader]

all right i made it up. well there IS a place called Penistone in Derbshire (also a village called Shitlington, forget where that is. Also a town called Twatt in Scotland - sorry i have degenerated your question into a double-entendre session. i'll get me coat...)

[jenstar]

August / august is another one.

[jenstar]

This page lists a few, though a lot of them are words which are also the surnames of people: http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words3.html

[Quizmonster]

Here are a few more...Bow, a district in London and bow, the front of a ship...Slough, the town and slough (pronounced sluff) meaning a muddy hollow...Graves, a French wine and graves, meaning burial-places...Job (pronounced Joe-b), a book in the Bible and job, meaning one's work-activity.

[Quizmonster]

Ah! A bit of synchrography there, Jen!