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Difino
| • | This page lists pairs of English words (excluding abbreviations and proper names) with different meaning distinguished only by capitalization. Some pairs – such as "polish" and "Polish" – are also pronounced differently. In situations where both words should be capitalized (such as the beginning of a sentence), there will be nothing to distinguish between them.
Although some pairs, such as march and March, are completely unrelated, in other cases, such as august and catholic, the capitalized form is a name which is etymologically related to the uncapitalized form. For example, August derives from the name of Imperator Augustus, who named himself after the word augustus, whence English august. And both Catholic and catholic derive from a Greek adjective meaning "universal". Pairs in which one word is simply a secondary meaning of the other – e.g. Masonry (secret society), which is essentially a peculiar use of the word masonry (wall building) – are omitted.
In other languages there are more, or less, of these pairs depending on that language's capitalization rules. For example, in German, where all nouns are capitalized, there are many pairs such as Laut (sound) ~ laut (loud) or Morgen (morning) ~ morgen (tomorrow). In contrast, in Italian almost no words (except proper names) are capitalized, not even months, weekdays nor ethnical adjectives, so there are extremely few, if any, such pairs. (An example is Messa (Mass) ~ messa (feminine past participe of mettere = to put), though the former is sometimes spelled with a lowercase m too.)
·August: 8th month
Source: [wikipedia: list of case sensitive english words]
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