Talk:The Farmer's Boy

"Plow" or "plough"?
The lyrics reproduced are quoted verbatim from which uses the "plow" spelling. A Google search, supported by the collective brains of the Wikipedia Language reference desk suggests that "plough" was the dominant spelling in Britain by that time; a plausible suggestion is that the author deliberately used the archaic spelling to support his contention that it is "a very ancient song". Anyhow, I think it best to retain the spelling used in the source and have today undone User:BobGun's edit which changed "plow" to "plough" in each verse. Alansplodge (talk) 19:52, 27 January 2017 (UTC)