Administrator of the Year Awards

A couple of weeks ago, School Administrators of Iowa hosted an awards ceremony and reception for Iowa's Administrators of the Year. The group of awardees included a superintendent, central office staffer, secondary principal,  secondary assistant principal, middle level principal and elementary principal. The ceremony was at our capitol building and Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds and Iowa's Department of Education Director Jason Glass graced us with their presence.

All this got me thinking about homonyms of course! I've got three to share with you today.

principal - the head or director of a school, or especially in England, a college.

principle - an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.

capitol - (often lowercase) a building occupied by a state legislature.

capital - the city or town that is the official seat of government in the country, state, etc.: Tokyo is the capital of Japan.

presence - the state or fact of being present, as with others or in a place.

presents - a thing presented as a gift; gift: Christmas presents.

All definitions were obtained from www.dictionary.com.