Re: Q about /c/

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>).

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