[Magdalen] trivia

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Thanks Scott! I love word origin info. 
Lynn



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On Aug 25, 2016, at 8:31 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:

Something I found:

Both capital and capitol are derived from the Latin root caput,
meaning “head.” Capital evolved from the words capitālis, “of the
head,” and capitāle, “wealth.” Capitol comes from Capitōlium, the name
of a temple (dedicated to Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of the Greek
god Zeus) that once sat on the smallest of Rome’s seven hills,
Capitoline Hill.

http://blog.dictionary.com/capital-vs-capitol/

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 1:12 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford
<oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?




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Scott R. Knitter
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