Re: CHAT: American vs European educational standards

You're correct about the usage, I was confuzzled.  Capitol is the
building(s), Capital is the town/city. Oops. :)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Mulraney [mailto:ataltanie@OCEANFREE.NET]
> Sent: Wednesday, 2002 September 25 6:40
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CONLANG] [CHAT] American vs European
> educational standards
>
>
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:05:08 -0500
> "Davis, Iain E." <feaelin@...> wrote:
>
> > When it comes to the European nations, I'm not sure I could
> > successfully (from memory, without a map) list off all the european
> > nations, much less their capitols.  With a map, I could probably
> > figure it out...and oddly, I bet the map would have the capitols on
> > it.
>
> Curiously, "Capitol" refers only to (US?) American
> legislatures. Well, perhaps it can be extended to the city
> that's seat of the legislature, I don't know. But there ain't
> any Capitols in Europe: The cities are "capitals" and the
> buildings housing the legislatures don't have a common term
> to refer to them.
>
> ;)
>
> s.
>
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