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The spelling hangs in a kind of limbo: it's changed from subtile, but it doesn't reflect the pronunciation either.
Edit: hang on, the Online Etymology Dictionary actually calls subtile a 'Latinized refashioning of the O.Fr. source of subtle'. I'd thought the word had slurred progressively on the way from subtilis, but apparently not.
What a strange little word this is!