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Re:Ok-Cancel versus Cancel-Ok by pwg on Friday June 08, 2018 @09:12PM (#17270958)
In all fairness, the "Submit" button in standard HTML is using the second definition of "Submit", not the first:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/submit

1 a : to yield to governance or authority

b : to subject to a condition, treatment, or operation * the metal was submitted to analysis

2 : to present or propose to another for review, consideration, or decision; also : to deliver formally * submitted my resignation

3 : to put forward as an opinion or contention * we submit that the charge is not proved

It (the "Submit" button) is "present[ing]" (or "deliver[ing]") the form data field contents to the server. And in fact, myself, until I read your comment, never even considered the word in the context of the "yield" definition due to how it operates.

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