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Thanks to Riley Snyder for a bit of a history lesson when he fact-checked the Republican National Convention to confirm that Carson City is, indeed, still the capital of Nevada.
That’s going to be the easiest fact-check he’ll ever do.
In the meantime, though, Twitter managed to provide a spelling lesson at the same time, after Las Vegas native Jimmy Kimmel corrected Michael McDonald by tweeting “the state capitol is Carson City.”
That drew rebukes from those who know that while Carson City is the capital, the capitol is in Carson City.
The word with an ‘o’ means the building. The word with an ‘a’ means the city.
Therefore, as all copy editors know, it is redundant to write “the capitol building.”