neither to be substituted for or

According to the Times-Chambers Dictionary, When you substitute X for Y, you use X.

When you replace X with Y, you use Y.

According to the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Beckham was substituted in the second half after a knee injury (= somebody else played instead of Beckham in the second half.)

Incho, you're welcome.

Inchoateknowledge wrote:

Thanks to you, et alia, I am sure I will never forget the correct use of substitute.

Incho, this is a misuse of a latin expression! 'et alia' means 'and other things.' You should have used 'et alii,' instead. 

They share the same abbreviation (et al.) so this might be confusing, but, as far as the gender is concerned, the former is neuter, while the latter is masculine, and in Latin you'd never use neuter for humans.

Tanit wrote:

Inchoateknowledge wrote: Thanks to you, et alia, I am sure I will never forget the correct use of substitute. Incho, this is a misuse of a latin expression! 'et alia' means 'and other things.' You should have used 'et alii,' instead.  They share the same abbreviation (et al.) so this might be confusing, but, as far as the gender is concerned, the former is neuter, while the latter is masculine, and in Latin you'd never use neuter for humans.

Hi,

I live and learn. Thanks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_alii

et alii

Used similarly to et cetera ("and the rest"), to stand for a list of names. Alii is actually masculine, so it can be used for men, or groups of men and women; the feminine, et aliae, is appropriate when the "others" are all female, and the neuter, et alia ("and other things"), is also common. APA style suggests that et alii may be used if the work cited was written by more than six authors; MLA style suggests that only three are necessary.