Talk:plough

This is just a stub to show that plough and plow are, at least to a first approximation, different spellings of the same word. This is probably a similar case to color/colour, in which case I'm most likely fine with whatever everyone else can agree on. -dmh 17:30, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Variations in UK/US spelling are handled by duplicating the article for both spellings to avoid bias. — Paul G 15:52, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Agreed. I wasn't entirely sure how current plough was, so I deferred. -dmh 19:17, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Possible Finnish translation: aurata, [[kynt��]]. --Stranger 16:03, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

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plough

Sense 2 of plough: "(US) A horse-drawn plow (as opposed to plow, used for the mechanical variety)". I have never heard or seen that American English distinguishes two senses of /plaʊ/, spelling it plow to refer to a mechanical one and spelling it plough to refer to a horse-drawn one. I'm pretty sure it's always spelled plow in en-US for all meanings. —Angr 16:08, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

• I've seen plough used in Am En, but only as a semi-archaic-looking variant of plow, and never with any distinction in meaning. Sense 2 sounds fishy to me. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 20:11, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

At COCA plough is still used in contemporary English, but, after excluding use in proper nouns (The Plough and the Stars, w:Schering-Plough, the constellation, etc, totalling 1/3 - 1/2 of uses), it seems more often used in historical contexts and fiction, where indeed it often refers to horse- or ox-drawn ones. In any event, COHA shows that plow has progressed from 5% of total usage (plow + plough) to majority by 1900 to 80-90% of usage over the last fifty years.

I would characterize current US use of plough as literary and historical. DCDuring TALK 20:36, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Failed. Label (literary or historical in the United States) added to first sense. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 16:12, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

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plough

Rfv-sense: Synonym of Ursa Major

Previously tagged, not listed here. NB: Some hits as proper noun. - Amgine/ ^t·e 04:32, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

We already have the correct version of this definition, marked as a proper noun and capitalized, at Plough. If a lowercase variant can be attested, it should presumably be changed to a form-of defintion. — Vorziblix (talk · contribs) 20:30, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 02:28, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 04:44, 30 October 2017 (UTC)