Check? or is it Cheque?  |
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 I have always wondered why there are two version of the same english word.
They both mean the same thing.
A piece of paper with written instructions to the bank to make a payment.
And when I was in school, I learn that the word is cheque and not check.
But when I went into the working world, it seems that every one is using the word check instead of cheque.
So I did a check with the dictionary and found that both words are listed. And that they are correct. Yet when we do a spell check with any document processors, the word check is accepted but cheque is not.
So much so, that when I write the word cheque in response to some discussions, I get corrected that the word should be check and not cheque./b]
I know that one is a US word and the other is a British word. But which is the correct one to use? And is the word cheque obsolete?
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1.  sweetashoney (766) | 1 year ago |  To me it would depend on which place that you would be at. If you are in the US you would use check because it is part of the English language.
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| 2. zandi458 (6511) | 1 year ago |  Can any word be obsolete in english language? I wonder! It will be more confusing for the ordinary jo to comprehend the differences in the American and British way of spelling. In school we studied British and now when I am in the cyber world it seems they prefer the American spelling and sometimes it makes me scratch my head to change my spellings to American as I am so used to the British spellings. The argument against spelling reform is merely a plea that what is novel is ugly, what is old is beautiful. The meanings of words are by no means usually to be discovered from their derivations. Many words give no obvious clue to their origin and history.
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3.  CatGods (1211) | 1 year ago |  If you live in the USA it's check. If you live in the United Kingdom, I think it is still check. But if you live in the French part of Canada it's cheque. As for the word processor, I think it only recognizes American English which is different from British English. Example: American center and British centre. Both cheque and centre come up as wrong spelling in the word spelling checker.
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 ahgong (3854) | 1 year ago | Yeah... exactly!
Which can be pretty irritating and confusing at times.
Cos I remember learning the word centre. But when I do a spell check, it becomes center.
As an adult who completed schooling in basic grammer and english, I already find it confusing. Imagine, now a days, all the children in grade school are required to use the computer to do some of their assignments. And when they do a spell check, it is going to all confusing for them as well. | |
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| 4. sudiptacallingu (7452) | 1 year ago |  Well I have always written it as cheque and no matter what Bill Gates says and underlines it with a red, I will keep it as ‘cheque’.
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| 5. kun2349 (7558) | 1 year ago |  lol=D YEah, i have seen two versions before and when i was in school, i was taught the word, cheque, and not, check.. lol=D I guess it applies to different countries, and all i know is that, USA is one country that always likes to be different, in most of their spelling and words.. lol=D
But no matter what, as long as one understands what, cheque or check, is, it will be fine.. As long as it's in the dictionary, it means it's not obsolete yet.. hehe^_^ Plus, nobody knows the difference when we are talking about instead of putting it into words.. haha
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| ahgong (3854) | 1 year ago | The noun for Check is the paper cheques I am referring to.
Go to http://www.dictionary.com and you will see what I mean.
cheque [chek]
–noun British. check (def. 29).
check [chek] verb, noun, plural checks or, for 40, chex, adjective, interjection
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–noun
24. Also, British, cheque. Banking. a written order, usually on a standard printed form, directing a bank to pay money.
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| 7. goofygrmp (1582) | 1 year ago |  I always thought the spelling was based on where you were from. I mean if you are in the States it's check and if you are in England lets say it's cheque. I could be wrong. But that's what I thought.
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8.  eggpoy (126) | 1 year ago |  The most common Spelling of the word (in all it senses) were check, checque, and cheque from the 1600s until the 1900s. Since the 1800s, the spelling cheque is standard from the financial sense of the word in the UK, Ireland, and the CommonWealth, while only check is retained in its other senses. Thus distinguishing the two defifitions in writting.
On the other hand, Check is used for the financial sense in the U.S
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| 9. a_s_h_l_e_y (35) | 1 year ago |  I use check when im talking about checking something...like making sure someone is correct. And then I use cheque to refer to the cheque you bring to the bank
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| 10. goddessofbeauty (669) | 1 year ago |  I was also confused on which word to use, but I ended up using the word check instead...
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