2023-06-16 10:29:16
When the prefix is added sub- to a term beginning with the letter bthe resulting word holds both bes.
However, in the press there are examples such as «Geologically, it is associated with the complex zone of betic-subetic contact», «Mineral soils with a sub-boreal or cold temperate climate with mean annual temperatures above 0 °C» or “The platform at the subgrade level will have a necessary width to receive the layer or layers of the subbase on it.”
In Spanish, double consonants have traditionally been simplified that arise when a word is formed with the addition of a prefix, as in trasudorof after- y sweatthe en transiberanoof trans- y Siberian, except in combinations rr, nnwhich have always been considered valid, as in super resistant o blacken
According to the Spelling of the Spanish languageI also know keeps the double b in cases where the prefix sub- joins a term whose first letter is another b, except in settled voices subranquial y sub-brigadiesin which the double consonant has been simplified.
In this way, in the previous examples, what would have been indicated would have been “Geologically, it is associated with the complex zone of betic-subbetic contact”, “Mineral soils with a subboreal or cold temperate climate with average annual temperatures above 0 °C” and “The platform at the subgrade level will have a necessary width to receive the layer or layers of the subbase on it.”
It is remembered that not the use of the hyphen is appropriate (as sub-betic, sub-boreal o sub-base) because, as a general rule, the prefixes that are applied to a word must be attached to it.
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