In situations where both words should be capitalized (such as the beginning of a sentence), there will be nothing to distinguish between them except the context in which they are used.
A particular example of where capitonyms are prominent is in terminology relating to philosophy, religion, and politics.
Words for transcendent ideas in the Platonic sense are often capitalized, especially when used in a religious context.
[8] Other distinctions sometimes made include church (meaning a building) and Church (meaning an organization or group of people), and the liturgical Mass, versus the physical mass.
The poem "Job's Job" from Richard Lederer's The Word Circus[1] is an example of the use of capitonyms: In August, an august patriarch Was reading an ad in Reading, Mass.
In contrast, in Italian, as well as Spanish, very few words (except proper names) are capitalized, so there are extremely few, if any, such pairs.