[Magdalen] trivia

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I have often wondered about that. In theory, are those words pronounced
differently?  What is the derivation that causes the difference in
spelling? Or is it just a convention that sort of stuck (surely not)? The
third syllable has the least tress, so it just gets a schwa?

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:20 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 8/24/2016 5:41:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> mjl at ix.netcom.com writes:
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> I  remember like it was yesterday my ENTIRE 4th grade year involving so
> many 4th  grade things, but one of those I remember the most fondly is the
> memorizing of  state  capitols. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> It's one of those strange oddities of the English language that only  the
> capitol buildings use the "o."  The cities that I think you mean  are
> state capitals.
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> Even the Greek orders, so often used on USA capitol buildings use
> the capital spelling.
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> David S. - who's made that capital/capitol spelling error many  times.
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