Monday, June 22, 2009
Local News / Sports
Giants Can't Hit, But Copy Editor Scores a Home Run
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By Joe Eskenazi
on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:30 AM
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Joe Eskenazi
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No arrests made by the grammar police today
A little while back we wrote about how baseball fans unfazed by donning the name and uniform number of a player recently cut off the team or unceremoniously packed off to Kansas City at the trade deadline
can save a lot of money at the Giants' Dugout Store.
So, being the kind of person who reads a menu from right to left, I was at the dugout store recently when I came across the above shirt. At first it struck me as an incredibly odd usage of the term "Capitol." But soon I realized that this was perfectly proper usage of a tricky word; whomever copy-edited that t-shirt deserves to take a curtain call.
Capitol -- with an "o" -- signifies the actual building in which the seat of a government is housed. This can lead to quirky sentences such as "California's Capitol Building is in Sacramento, the state capital."
Since the above shirt seems to indicate that AT&T Park is the seat of government for Giants Country, then the term "capitol" is proper.
Now, is there anyone I can talk to about this nationwide power outage here in Giants Country?
Tags: grammar, San Francisco Giants, Image
About The Author
Joe Eskenazi
Bio:
Joe Eskenazi was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left.
"Your humble narrator" was a staff writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015.
He resides in the Excelsior with his wife, 4.3 miles from his birthplace and 5,474 from hers.
