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Pont (pronounced "pohn"; French for "bridge"; also Welsh for "bridge" when prefixed to another word, the "t" not silent) is the name or part of the name of several places. It also means 'period' and 'exactly' in Hungarian (where the 't' is pronounced).
France
Pont is the name or part of the name of several communes of France:
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Pont, Côte-d'Or , in the Côte-d'Or "département"
*Pont-Bellanger , in the Calvados "département"
*Pont-d'Ouilly , in the Calvados "département"
*Pont-Farcy , in the Calvados "département"
*Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados , in the Calvados "département"
*Pont-l'Évêque, Oise , in the Oise "département"witzerland
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Du Pont, Switzerland , a Swiss hamlet that is part of the commune ofL'Abbaye United Kingdom
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Pont, Cornwall
*Pont, County Durham
* theRiver Pont inPonteland , NorthumberlandWales (Part of the UK)
Some examples of towns in Wales that have derived from their use of a bridge:
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Pontarddulais ,Swansea Welsh for "Bridge over the (river) Dulais"
*Pontypridd ,Glamorgan Welsh for "Bridge by the earthen house"People
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Charles E. Pont , American artist
*John Pont , American college football coach
*Mike Pont , singer
*Timothy Pont , Scottish mapmaker of the late 16th century
* See alsoDu Pont family
*(Gavin) Graham Laidler , British cartoonist, 'Pont' of "Punch" magazineee also
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DuPont , the company
*Dupont , other uses
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