"bring Route 40"

[Marc Velasco]

for the branched off-topic:

I normally just say replace x _with_ y.
With substitute, I'd prefer _with_, but could also use _for_: substitute x
for y.
where x is d.o. instead of  prepositional object.

As for substitute, in sports, I've heard...
Andrews off the bench, coming in for Baker.  e.g.
Likewise Andrews substituting for Baker.

So maybe replace/with, substitute/for.  (At least in my personal idiom.)

And I wonder how much this usage has been informed by the find/replace fxn
found in word processors, text editors.


> > To branch off to a different topic:
> >
> > Do you normally use "replace X for Y", meaning 'use Y instead of using
> > X'? I had to consciously analyze that phrase; I would have said either
> > - "replacement of take BY bring" (diff. prep.)
> > or
> > - "SUBSTITUTION of bring for take" (diff. root verb and argument
> > ranking)
> >
> > We've discussed this topic quite a bit, but I don't recall if this
> > particular combination has come up, with or without nominalization.
>
> hmm... "replace OLD for NEW" instead of "replace OLD by/with NEW".
> we've had lots of discussion of "substitute", but not, i think, for
> "replace".
>
>

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