A fewer man would have used a different subject line

[andrewducker]

dinosaurcomics belongs on your friends list, and you know it.

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[erindubitably.livejournal.com]

Dinosaur Comics is on my friends list, and for a moment I was confused by the double post!

[soon_lee]

Definately! We shouldn't take this sort of thing for granite, less the English language revolves into mutual uncomprehensibility.

[andrewducker]

If we're not careful, we'll loose the language wii no and love.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Have you ever seen the threads on Metafilter about which is the correct word/pronouncation for a phrase? They are really something to behold. People just won't accept that they are wrong!

That said, don't "font" and "fount" mean exactly the same thing?

[andrewducker]

A brief bit of digging turns up that a "font" is a container of water, while a "fount" is a fountain, spring or other source of water. So similar, but not quite the same thing.

[soon_lee]

No no no! It should be "font" of all knowledge. Because, as you know, knowledge comes in words, and words come in fonts.

[soon_lee]

...(more) seriously, I wonder if the original "Fountain of Knowledge" refers to John of Damascus.