{"id":721,"date":"2011-02-22T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-48-capitol-building-capitol-city-capital-city\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T14:55:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T18:55:58","slug":"day-48-capitol-building-capitol-city-capital-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-48-capitol-building-capitol-city-capital-city\/","title":{"rendered":"day 48: capitol building? capitol city? capital city?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last “Presidents’ Day” post, honest! In discussing how to punctuate Presidents’ Day and when to capitalize and when not to capitalize president, I can’t help but bring up another commonly-miswritten error–that of capitol and capital.<\/span><\/p>\n Here is the low-down, along with a trick or two to help you remember the details:<\/span><\/p>\n 1. Capital<\/span> 2. Capitol<\/span> Last “Presidents’ Day” post, honest! In discussing how to punctuate Presidents’ Day and when to capitalize and when not to capitalize president, I can’t help but bring up another commonly-miswritten error–that of capitol and capital. Here is the low-down, along with a trick or two to help you remember the details: 1. Capital a. Means […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[640,82,632,183],"tags":[153,133,180,178,176],"yoast_head":"\n
a. Means upper-case letter–most people do not use this word incorrectly here<\/span>
b. Can be used as an adjective to mean primary–that was a capital idea!<\/span>
c. Can be used as an adjective to describe punishable by death–capital punishment<\/span>
d. A city that is the seat of the government for a state–this is where people sometimes use capitol instead<\/span><\/p>\n
a. Refers to the building in which the U.S. Congress meets (when it is capitalized)<\/span>
b. Refers to a state’s main government building (when it is not capitalized)<\/span>
c. Tricky Trick to Help It Stick: O<\/strong>nly use capito<\/strong>l when referring to a go<\/strong>verment building—capitol does not have any other uses; all other uses need capital<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"