(Sample factoid: 70 percent say they call their home "D.C." None calls it "the Capital.")
Note to Washington Post editors: Your dumb-cluck section C reporter actual meant "the CapiTOL" - you know the word that uses the letter "O". Now if you actually meant to say "Das Kapital" then of course you are just being true to your liberally bleached roots...
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CapitOl is the building; CapitAl is the city.