i am curious, does anyone with some knowledge of linguistics know why it is that people with certain accents tend to put an epenthetic /s/ in the middle of the word "subtract", turning it into "substract"?
@packbat yeah what I was saying is it's probably even older than 1540s because if "substrahere" was a known variation in latin before "substract" showed up in english it must have been older -F
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@Felthry that's what I meant - "subtrahere" is the older version, but folks have been adding an "s" in there for hundreds of years
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