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Comment by mikkupikku

1 day ago

Fount is definitely more correct. If we're talking a baptismal font, then it's font, but if were talking a fount of knowledge, the correct term is fount with font sometimes being used but derived from fount.

Etymology 1, meaning 3: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fount

Etymology 3: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/font

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mikkupikku

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tclancy  17 hours ago

Thank you, I couldn’t remember which but I figured I’d hit Muphry’s Law either way.

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