top | item 46973326 (no title) daemoncoder | 19 days ago Or "fount" from older, non-American English. discuss order hn newest mikkupikku|19 days 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/fountEtymology 3: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/font tclancy|19 days ago Thank you, I couldn’t remember which but I figured I’d hit Muphry’s Law either way.
mikkupikku|19 days 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/fountEtymology 3: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/font tclancy|19 days ago Thank you, I couldn’t remember which but I figured I’d hit Muphry’s Law either way.
tclancy|19 days ago Thank you, I couldn’t remember which but I figured I’d hit Muphry’s Law either way.
mikkupikku|19 days ago
Etymology 1, meaning 3: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fount
Etymology 3: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/font
tclancy|19 days ago