backwards "substitute" (again)

[David A. Daniel]

Ah, I see the problem: substitute with/by is "chiefly British," it says here
at MW. My bad. I should have known that.
DAD

Subject:      Re: backwards "substitute" (again)
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"Substitute them with" sounds almost equally barbaric. By that I mean
gibberishy. I'm not kidding.

JL

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:39 PM, David A. Daniel <dad at pokerwiz.com> wrote:
> > "...substitute them WITH other high-fiber foods" would be fine, no?
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> IMO, not even close.
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> Of course, I'm working from a non-standard grammar. So,
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> Ineverknow.
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