Tony Green wrote:
Oh great font of knowledge that is SLUG, I genuflect in your general
direction.
I presume you meant "fount of knowledge".
If one consults http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/ one finds that the use of
"font of knowledge" is now considered by some to be "nearly mainstream".
The example cited on eggcorns is “She was a font of wisdom and good sense.”
(American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed.)
and eggcorns goes on to say:
` The noun “knowledge” in the heading stands in for a variety of abstract nouns.
The noun “font”, .... as a variant of poetic and metaphorical “fount” ’source,
repository’, has been steadily gaining on metaphorical “fount”; this is a
replacement of a less frequent and more specialized word by a more frequent
phonologically similar word that makes sense in the context. '
Mike
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Ph: 9514 1725 Fx: 9514 1460
[pls ignore idiot lawyer's msg below]
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