"with capital o"

Hi,

What does it mean that soemthing is "with capital o" ?
as in "planning with capital o"

Thanks :)

I don't know. That would be planning with a capital "p," wouldn't it?

Here is an "o" fact. Capital with an "a" refers to the capital city. Capitol with an "o" refers to the actual capitol building.

When someone states a plan and prefaces that plan "with a capital X" they mean to emphasize the importance of that plan.
For instance, the manager of a corporate sales team may tell his team members that "The rest of this month we will concentrate our time on cold calling---that's cold calling with a "capital C".
The manager uses that phrase to emphasize to his team that they need to spend a majority of their time knocking on doors looking for new business.

It's also used, in the UK anyway, to indicate something official or formal. So "history" with a capital "H" is an official sanctioned version of history. "conservative" with a capital "C" is often used to distinguish between a politician who is conservative by nature and one who is a member of the "Conservative" a.k.a the Tory Party.

This, idea, by the way, is very difficult to translate into German in which all nouns are capitalised.