# Capitonyms - do they occur in other languages?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 24, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitonyms-do-they-occur-in-other-languages/746984 "2016-02-24T16:27:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitonyms-do-they-occur-in-other-languages/746984/21 "2016-02-26T02:20:38Z")

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There’s a third: Papa, or “father.”

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**Author:** ![Abner\_Ravenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@Abner\_Ravenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abner_Ravenwood)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitonyms-do-they-occur-in-other-languages/746984/22 "2016-02-26T18:09:03Z")

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Papá is pronounced differently than papa.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitonyms-do-they-occur-in-other-languages/746984/23 "2016-02-26T18:31:26Z")

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For that matter:

In Spanish, Papi = father

In English, poppy = flower

George Herbert Walker Bush was called Poppy by his frat brothers, long before he was a father. The name stuck from then on.

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