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Assertion: there are word-pairs in English that differ in meaning, but are spelled the same, except one of the pair is capitalized. We rule out pairs where the words are obviously of the same origin, e.g. Buffalo (city) and buffalo (intimidate/awe). Both come from the animal also known as the bison.

Intuitively it seems like there should be a large number of such pairs, but
Polish (people from Poland) and polish (to give a shine to)
Moor (ancient Arabs) and moor (a marshy type of land)
Reading (city name) and reading (the act of consuming a book)


Can my erudite readers come up with more such pairs?

ETA: WotW has two good ones in comments, and there's a whole class of people names that fit the rule but that I hadn't thought of.

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