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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Therefore, I said "According to Wikipedia". I wouldn't trust it blindly.
However, I read a lot of fantasy (so, there's quite a lot o bow and arrow stuff in there), and I've actually seen "notch an arrow" *far* more often than "nock an arrow". I have actually wondered if this was a difference between American and British English, or some other sort of weirdness.
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Dialecticon shows that "nock an arrow" is preferred everywhere. (US 85%, UK 77%, Australia 83%)
[UPDATE! But Google's N-gram viewer shows that the preferences for nocked over notched is a modern phenomenon, with nocked only gaining significant ground over the past 20 years, and before that they were used about equally.]
(My pet hate is people who write about arrows being fired from bows....)