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[+] 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    The French invented the bankers cheque so naturally that's how it's spelt. That's the same reason it's spelt baguette or duvet or hell even cafe.

    Although knowing Americans they probably do have an alternate spellings

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    We usually just keep spelling things incorrectly until the dictionary gives up and adds the misspelling as correct

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    You do realize that's how dictionarys have always worked after all we stopped using little s because the serifs made them look like f so we started using 's instead so technically Mary's dog is there. Is misspelled

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Don't forget fillet , which for some reason the English insist on pronouncing "fill-it" instead the Americans saying "fi-lay" which is properly inherited from the French.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As an American, we simplified English spellings back in the day. Pray we don’t simplify it further.

    But for real, yeah here it’s correct to spell it check. A lot of words that we spell different were adopted into English before we simplified our spellings.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    People arguing over spelling in a language like English...

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    10th GPD country tells people how to spell Gehaltsscheck

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We just stopped pretending we wanted to be French. The spelling is so much better now (ok it's still shit)

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    cheque is the british spelling, and how we civilised Commonwealth countries spell it

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It was just the other day I wrote in a Canadian thread, how cheque vs check was the only spelling difference that made me irrationally angry at anyone using the latter in a Canadian financial context.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wait I don't understand why it would be check

    Check means to check something, or to check something is correct

    Cheque is a piece of paper used to transfer money. In the olden days you didn't get the money put straight into a bank account you literally got a bankers cheque which you payed in. So it was literally a "pay cheque"

    Who spells it paycheck? I assume that's Americans. But it says something that even Canada doesn't spell it like that.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    In American English, those pieces of paper are also known as checks. Stupid, right?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    No you spell them the french way and to claim the french are right about anything is a crime against humanity.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Usually mana only comes back when you're resting.

    Paychecks are more like rage points or the action points in WoW that only accumulate while doing other actions (ie working).

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    At work, I've been lobbying long and hard to have our language selection in the user interface specify "Traditional English" and "Simplified English". I haven't succeeded yet, but I'm not giving up.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    You spell it like the French, who are people who needlessly add a bunch of letters to any simple, singular sound. Hence, wrong. :P

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