Why does Firefox keep showing a strange cursive font for certain sections of text on web sites like Wikipedia?

For past month or so, when I view Wikipedia a few other sites, sections of text are displaying in a large, cursive font. I can't find any rhyme or reason to what sections are showing this way. It's not happening on all sites but there are two or three where I'm seeing it. It makes things really hard to read. For a screen capture, see this file I put on [https://www.yousendit.com/download/T2dlQ3QycWZJMHRBSXRVag YouSendIt] YouSendIt.

I don't seem to have Arial Corsiva installed but when I just now disabled the Zapfino font family, then seems to fix the problem. Text now shows up as intended.

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