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SirFatty 10 hours ago

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tclancy 10 hours ago | parent [-]

First of all, you want "font". Second of all, don't do that.

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daemoncoder 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Or "fount" from older, non-American English.

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mikkupikku 9 hours ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	tclancy 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thank you, I couldn’t remember which but I figured I’d hit Muphry’s Law either way.

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SirFatty 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Don't do what, exactly?

	▲	tclancy an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Do not mix more than 1.00mL of chlorine with more than 0.00mL of bleach.

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ploprof 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Don't do what?

	▲	tclancy an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Return VHS tapes without rewinding.

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gzread 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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