“Plowshares” or “Ploughshares”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “plowshares” and 2 prefer “ploughshares”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	plowshares	ploughshares	Preference
United States	68	32	“plowshares”
United Kingdom	43	57	“ploughshares”
India	24	76	“ploughshares”
Philippines	100	0	“plowshares”
Canada	56	44	“plowshares”
Australia	57	43	“plowshares”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	0	0	Not enough data
New Zealand	0	0	Not enough data
Jamaica	0	0	Not enough data
Trinidad & Tobago	0	0	Not enough data
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“plowshares”

…rakes, picks, pruning hooks, knives, plowshares, and carpenters' tools — as…
…Sunday, McKenna and three other Plowshares activists accessed the third deck…
…1599 after they bought iron plowshares from the Chinese and learned…
Swords to Plowshares
…Peace without Weapons" (swords to plowshares).
…the Catholic Worker Movement and Plowshares Movement.
…82-year-old nun, and two fellow Plowshares activists entered the Y-12 complex…
Swords and Plowshares; The Indian Army as a…
…of Hope group of the Plowshares movement who damaged a Hawk…
…non-violent civil disobedience with the Plowshares Movement, sometimes being arrested or…

“ploughshares”

…peasants who reportedly took their ploughshares with them and dramatically threw…
…magazines, research and journals including Ploughshares, The Christian Science Monitor, Studio…
Ploughshares is an American literary journal…
…Missouri Review, New Ohio Review, Ploughshares, and Post Road, and has…
In addition to this, Trident Ploughshares also argues that, since the…
…Republic, Agni, From the Fishouse, Ploughshares, Slate, The Kenyon Review and…
The Ploughshares Solos Omnibus series collects the…
…Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry.
…a short story published in Ploughshares in the previous year (the…
Ploughshares > Authors & Articles >…

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