Forum:Alternate vs. alternative timelines

In the thread Alternative timeline individuals, a side issue came up about whether the Whoniverse has "alternate timelines" or "alternative timelines".

Our main article on the topic is Alternate timeline; Alternative timeline is a redirect to that page, and the word "alternative" doesn't appear anywhere in the text. However, there are other articles on the wiki that use the word "alternative". I'm not sure which is more common, but that doesn't seem too important.

CzechOut's argued that (at least according to one reference book), "alternative" is the more common UK usage for this sense, and I believe he's right.

However, I think there's a much better way to decide in this case: which is more commonly used in the Whoniverse? I can't begin to guess off the top of my head, but I do have most of the subtitles for the new series, dozens of subtitles for the classic series, and dozens of fully-scanned novels and samples of other novels that I can grep through when I get home. (I'm not putting forth TV and novels as more important than comics and audios, just a lot easier to search.) --70.36.140.19 08:06, September 18, 2011 (UTC)