"James Watt invented the steam engine, which substituted machine power for human power." I've read this phrase, and thought "that can't be worded right, it ought to be 'substituted human power for machine power,' as in 'substitute this for that." Is the phrase worded correctly, or am I gone and crazy?
An awful lot of people seem to use the phrase "substitute X for Y" to mean "replace X with Y", while I've always used and understood it as "replace Y with X". This makes sense to me, given that a substitute is the replacement, not the thing which has been replaced.  I thought I might be able to figure things out from a dictionary, but now after seeing two sorts of definitions, I'm even more confused:   to put or use in the place of another to take the place of; replace   The first one suggests that the object will be the substitute (replacement), the thing put into place, while the second suggests that the object will be the thing which has been replaced.  Is one of these usages more correct in any sense? (I know this is probably a pointless question, since people will continue to speak the way they speak.) Is there perhaps a difference between American and British English?   And most importantly, is there any reliable way to tell what someone means when they ask how to substitute honey for sugar, or is the verb simply guaranteed to cause confusion?
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I've seen examples like this:   public class MaxSeconds {    public static final int MAX_SECONDS = 25; }   and supposed that I could have a Constants class to wrap constants in, declaring them static final. I know practically no Java at all and am wondering if this is the best way to create constants.