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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 06:01 PM
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Poll question: Which is better plough or plow
Edited on Wed Apr-28-04 06:06 PM by JVS
additional question, does one write "splow me up with some fries" or "splough me up with some fries"?
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 06:03 PM
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1. The Answer
In the United States of America: Plow
In the British Commonwealth: Plough

And that's that!

--bkl
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 06:04 PM
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4. I thought it was a new-school old-school thing
I've always spelled it plough
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 06:03 PM
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2. We all know how my Canuck-ass voted
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Snoggera Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 06:04 PM
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3. One ploughs with a plow. n/t
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DAGDA56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 06:06 PM
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5. Starry Plough always seems better than Starry Plow...
...reading it, to me at least, Plow seems like it ought to rhyme with Blow.
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 06:13 PM
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6. You expect English to be logical?
If you want a language that's phonetic and makes perfect grammatical sense every time, you're going to have to learn Esperanto. English is the oddest of the odd ducks.

--bkl
Sinjoro Amu Anason!
("Lord Love a Duck" in Esperanto)
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DAGDA56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 06:20 PM
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8. You're right, it almost makes more sense...except for...
...the fact that one of the stars of "Friends" is named Jeniffer Duck in Esperanto.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 06:19 PM
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7. Whenever I see "plough"
My brain considers pronouncing it "pluff" ever so briefly.
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DAGDA56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-28-04 06:21 PM
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9. ...right , as in tough...
...nice to talk to a Goddess.
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