Give me a capital letter and I might be a Wall Street billionaire named Buffett, but write me in lowercase and I am an intricate labyrinth of underground tunnels dug by rabbits. What name am I?
Warren
The answer plays on the homograph 'Warren.' Capitalized, it is a recognizable first name shared by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, while in nature, a warren is an interconnected system of rabbit burrows.
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