A homograph is a word that looks the same as another word but has a different meaning. My favorite is wind and wind or windy and windy. How did those two things come to be spelled the same way? When left to your own devices, with no context, does the word "windy" automatically mean blustery or twisted? How about wind? Left! That's another one!
A capitonym is a word whose meaning changes depending on whether or not it is capitalized. Like Polish or polish or like Pole and pole. What is is with the Polish that their descriptive words are also random other words in English?
There is no point to this other than that sometimes language blows my mind.
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