The road home

We went to Red River Gorge (in Kentucky) to stay at a rented cabin with friends for the weekend. It was quite a blast -- I had a bunch of fun and feel relaxed to boot. Fantastic.

On the way back we passed through Frankfort. A sign on the highway said "The Kentucky Capital". Now, I would have taken that for poor word choice. But as it turns out, "capitol" is only appropriate for the building, while "capital" is right for a city that's the seat of government.

Huh.

I mean... that's pretty stupid. It's dumb enough that there are two different spellings for essentially the same word. But these two meanings overlap so much, and yet use different spellings? Who came up with this stuff?

I did like the image of a "Kentucky Capital" as being a giant "K" or something though.