Taxi's in hindhead, midhurst and rogate

[glasgowcyclist]

Us US?

Yebbut only one of them's a word, the other's an abbreviation (if I take your reference to be the U.S.A.).

GC

 

[Markymark]

Yebbut only one of them's a word, the other's an abbreviation (if I take your reference to be the U.S.A.).

GC

Brazilian/brazilian

 

[Globalti]

Oh... now somebody else has pointed these out:

Ionic - ionic
Cancer - cancer
Lent - lent
May - may
Scotch - scotch
Welsh - welsh
Labour - labour

.....and there are more!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitonym

 

[Markymark]

Mark/mark

Although both can be filthy....

 

[Fnaar]

Globalti
global tea



I may have the wrong end of the stick here.

 

[Beebo]

Interesting grammar point: did you know that Polish is the only word in English whose meaning is completely altered by the presence or absence of a capital?

I am reading this post in Reading whilst I polish my Polish ceramics.

 

[gavintc]

Queen/queen

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Interesting grammar point: did you know that Polish is the only word in English whose meaning is completely altered by the presence or absence of a capital?

I thought for a moment Turkey and turkey, but, of course, you could argue that 'Turkey' can be used as a name of, say, a turkey, which is, of course, the same as the name of the country.