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--- UMCrevmom wrote you, in part: "...so many people find themselves flummoxed by capitol and capital...." Indeed. The go-around about language which is rather well summarized in one comment:

kiryandil -- “Aren't you worried that this impacts the numerous updates from Luzern and various other European capitals?” UMCRevMom@aol.com -- "Of course, you must mean CAPITOLs."
63 posted on 9/30/2023, 11:28:29 AM by UMCRevMom@aol.com

It is amusing that she chose to incorrectly correct you by writing in capital letters -- "CAPITOLs."

That she cites Merriam-Webster is also amusing, for among the meanings of "capital," using Merriam-Webster, one finds:

3 [2 capital] a : a city serving as a seat of government b : a city preeminent in some special activity

Merriam-Webster also informs of "capitol:"

1 a : a building in which a state legislative body meets b : a group of buildings in which the functions of state government are carried out

The funny things about being incorrectly correct and then doubling down by assertion is that it eventually unwinds.

Seems someone -- not you -- was "flummoxed by capitol and capital" and several in the following exchanges of entertaining comments were not.

Speaking of "flummoxed," I wager that many who challenge you based on your interesting moniker never bothered to look at the seemingly strange and perhaps Slavic name (to them), to learn it is Tolkeinesque. As in, "the eldest son and heir of the High-king Isildur, Elendur Kiryandil (Q.'Star Servant') died alongside his father and his brothers Aratan and Ciryon...." Of course, one has to have noted the footnotes, since this is manuscript stuff for the interest of the few, the truly curious and the better educated.

One also observes that the exchange as to "CAPITOLs" ends with posting other stuff -- rather like the MSM. Look over there. So after you comes censor.net.....

More on that shortly. Amusing greetings to you, son of Siriondil....