Re: Tram number founts [Was: WANTED]
  Tony Bailey

And the Macquarie, refers you to ‘Font’ when you look at ‘founts’.

Tony Bailey

> On 12 May 2018, at 2:01 pm, Prescott lenkaprescott@...> wrote:

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> I've never seen the word founts used in this sense, only this:

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> http://grammarist.com/usage/font-vs-fount/

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> In any case, Australia used mostly American spelling for a century and more, e.g. this newspaper item from 1916:

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> https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/129636377?searchTerm=font%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&searchLimits=l-availability=y|||l-australian=y

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> Tony P

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> On Saturday, 12 May 2018 09:55:59 UTC+10, Andrew Cook wrote: