Re: Q about /c/

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

> From:    Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
> > On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Carlos Thompson wrote:
> >
> > > If you know what to look, you can even recognize the substract language of
> > > the foreigner.
> >
> > You've done that a few times. The word you're looking for is 'substrait'.
> > There's also a different word, 'subtract' that *substract is often
> > erroneously used by NES that means 'take away'.
>
> You mean, of course, <substrate> (or rarely:  <substratum>).
So I do, and I've already been corrected :) (I thought it was substrate,
but spelling it with a c made me think it must've come from, or at the
least been influenced by, a French word with a Latin word with -ct, which
I think is a kosher change. I meant to check it after I'd finished writing
the second sentence, but I forgot.)

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Tristan