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Chris -- 2025-05-10
I have seen a few cases of sustenance being misspelled in various ways, but the imagery with “su*b*stenance” seems to be introducing the idea of something which has substance (to satisfy you / fill you up) as well as the original concept of sustaining (through nourishment)
Google has around 3,480 hits for “substenance”
Eg:
“Physical substenance vs emotional comfort”
http://bitterfig.livejournal.com/45866.html
“Substenance stock photos”
http://www.123rf.com/stock-photo/substenance.html
“I thought it was “baby food†and I wanted substenance.
Well I have finally “matured†enough to know that ALL of God’s Word is substenance and went to the beginning”
http://kylegoen.wordpress.com/2006/03/0 … y-methods/ (comment 5, not the original post)
I have also come across “substinance” – 4,780 hits in Google, substinence (<1000) and substenence (<200)
Also, bizarrely, “substitence”
“Does it provide food and substitence for my employees?”
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive … arden.aspx
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will buy a ridiculous hat – Scott Adams (author of Dilbert)
Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day; set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life – Terry Pratchett
http://blog.meteorit.co.uk
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This one’s a pretty awesome find too.
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