Grammar question: substitute A for B

[Theoretician]

If a national newspaper editor told you to substitute A for B in a recipe that you've not yet seen, would you expect the original recipe to contain

a) A
b) B
c) could be either

B in original

Wowsers... given the context, that's poor!

They should consider substituting a grammarian (like moi) for the original journalist

I agree that "subsitute for" means the opposite to "substitute with."

Every internet grammar commentary I've managed to locate has said B is either right or better. (The one who merely called it better said that the B pattern had been around for a few hundred years, whereas the A one was first documented in 1978, and that most people still used the B one.)

So... (Whispers) I'm right??? Twirls!!!

(Do grammar and literary stuff for a living so should bloody hope so too).

I'd say A for the original.

Maybe deliberate errors are a cunning ploy to get links that drive up their readership?

I think I miscalculated the votes, at the time of my original count I think the result should have been

• 3 for A
• 12 for B
• 2 for c

So a total of 12 out of 17 votes for B. Not sure I've got it exactly right even now, but anyway, the overall result remains similar to what I originally said.

B

It definitely B. The editor should have substituted 'with' for 'for' in the article.

B.

A

Bumping once to the day-shift a chance to agree with me.

to give the day-shift

I'm with Emochild too. 😎

A - you need this in the recipe and you would need to know what you are buying in the supermarket.

Both is the obvious answer.

B

If you are using chicken for pork then you are using chicken.

If you are substituting chicken with pork than the answer is pork.

Therefore the answer is definitely A.

Nailed my thoughts ThickAndThin.
Definitely A.

It is definitely B, I am baffled that anyone could think otherwise. Actually, a lot of people have very poor reading comprehension so I am not surprised, but it is definitely B

B
Substitute A for B, so A is the substitute and B is the original ingredient.

Yes under I agree but the answer therefore has to be A.

Or how do you know what A is in order to buy it? You need that information.

Wait, no A. Substitute A for B means swapping A for B, so the original would be A.

X post!

Exactly, it is A.

Spuriouser you are right , anyone saying B has poor reading skills

I suppose technically you need both, otherwise how do you know what to substitute for what?

I'd expect b to be in the original recipe I think but I've noticed this being used what I'd class as incorrectly a lot recently. Can't quite get my head around the details though