Thomas Koch <[email protected]> writes: > According to Webster, substract and subtract are both correct: > https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subtract > https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/substract
Just FYI, the OED marks it as "Now nonstandard and rare" and the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (the dictionary behind the dict command) marks it as obsolete. I'm fairly certain that at least in US English it would be commonly marked as a spelling mistake. (aspell with the default Debian dictionaries does so, for instance.) I don't know about UK English. I have no opinion about whether Lintian should mark it as a spelling mistake, but I would recommend avoiding it in favor of the more standard subtract spelling. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
