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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 22/12/2023 19:08

I see this used wrongly so often now I'm losing any sense of what's correct. Often it's clear from the context that the person writing has got it the wrong way round - I think. This is similar to many posts I've seen on MN in the last few days.

Ordered a tub of cranberry sauce for Christmas dinner - it was substituted for a jar of mustard.

Surely that should be 'substituted with'? TBH, to avoid this problem, I now mostly write 'replaced by' or 'replaced with'.

Got that out of my system now!

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heldinadream · 22/12/2023 19:13

God yes this annoys me no end. There's at least one supermarket website that claims to be substituting sunflower oil for other oils. No, no you're not, there's a sunflower oil shortage and you are substituting other oils for the unavailable sunflower oil.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to say that in public (so to speak) OP. It makes me quite inordinately cross.

ConnieCroydon · 22/12/2023 19:17

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