Talk:Draft horse

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Has anyone red Margaret Derry's "Horses in Society" (2006). She argues that draft horses are a product of the industrial era, were developed for urban and industrial markets and that farmers preferred a more general prupose horse. Has any one read this book or any thoughts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.157.73.26 (talk) 16:30, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Draft vs. Draught

I find this title very confusing as in OZ we use 'draft' as an abbreviated form to describe a campdrafter to draft stock and draft also has many other meanings. Why not the correct form of Draught??? Cgoodwin (talk) 03:13, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

"Draft" is proper American English where "Draught" is very rare. I don't about pronunciation but in the U.S. it is generally the same for both spellings. I haven't looked at this article in a while and don't have time right now, but likely it has established itself as an American English article.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 04:01, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

LOL! It is because the "correct" way to spell it in the USA (where we, of course, are ALWAYS right -- LOL! (grinning, ducking and running...)) is "draft." And yes, Doug draft and draught I have been told are both understood to use the "ft" pronunciation. When we Yanks see "draught," we usually think, "Hmm. "drat" horse? "drot" horse? What's that??" The exception are the Irish Draught fans, who are (pretentiously) insistent on "Draught" spelling (All of the preceeding is said tongue in cheek and is intended to be funny, should anyone misunderstand) But seriously, folks, I've been on wiki about two years, and I think there have been numerous "draught/draft" moves, revert wars, moving wars, etc. Per wiki guidelines, I think the rule is that whichever form of US/UK English an article is started or substantially expanded in, that is the format in which it should be kept. I think if you check "what links here" for the article, there will be many links to both spellings. That said, the history of this article may be so scrambled that there may be no clear consensus. As for campdrafting, that is, I think, a uniquely Australian use (?), and maybe the thing to do is to add a nice disambig to campdrafting, as I see no way to resolve the thing in either direction without someone being confused. I think I'm confused -- Um, What day is it, what planet am I on, and what happened to that bag of cookies I was eating? (burp!) :-D Montanabw^(talk) 18:06, 19 March 2008 (UTC)