What's in a name?

[Clarence Gardner]

>"Courageous" <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote in message
>news:392CBAB5.37BFCE21 at san.rr.com...
>> Can you name some situations
>> in reading and writing english (heh) where case is essential to being
>> understood?

I'm feeling silly:

    Did you miss Smith?     (Did you fail to meet a person named Smith?)
    Did you Miss Smith?    (I won't translate this one; put on your Old
                                     English hat and accent the first word. 
                                     "Didst thou Miss Smith?")

Hey, for that matter:

    Put on your old English hat.
    Put on your Old English hat.