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Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–).  The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.  1993.
 
faun, fawn (nn.)
 
 
These homophones differ in both meaning and spelling: a faun is a figure in Roman myth, half man, half goat, something like a satyr (see SATIRE); a fawn is a very young deer, usually less than a year old.  1
 
 
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