Cheque vs Check

[elixir.]

personally, i have never in my life used the spelling "cheque". that just looks foreign to me!

i'm from florida, USA. pretty much lived here my whole life (22 years old), and i think i would be offended if someone honestly called me uneducated just because i've grown up spelling it "check".

everyone should know that some words can be spelled/pronounced differently in different areas of the world. doesn't mean anyone is more or less educated than someone else, that assumption is just ridiculous.

[treemonster]

I always check my cheque before I hand it to the cashier. Well, I don't (actually, I tend not to use cheques), but the point is made.

+1

what's funny is when americans or even ESL euros try to correct me for spelling it this way online.

[SLeeM@N]

Canada in French/English it's cheque :)

[DrJens]

OT: People still use cheques? I thought those things went away in the 80's?

[BoneyardBrew Member]

Check for both here in the US.

[kalizar]

Only seen "cheque" used in rare occasions. I thought it was like the old English version of the word or something, such as the word "shoppe" or "olde". Besides, you sign up for a "checking account" at your bank, not a "chequing account".

[+Ryster Subscriber²]

The correct words as per the ENGLISH language are:

1) A check box on a form.

2) A bank cheque.

Even wikipedia agrees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque

The spellings check, checque, and cheque were used interchangeably from the 17th century until the 20th century. However, since the 19th century, the spelling cheque (from the French word ch?que) has become standard for the financial instrument in the Commonwealth and Ireland, while check is used only for the verb "to verify", thus distinguishing the two definitions in writing. In American English, the usual spelling for both is "check".

If you use 1 to mean 2, then you are not speaking English. You are speaking some derivation of it, most probably American English. Because as we all know, the founding fathers had to change the spelling of many words just to distinguish themselves from the Motherland. In the same way that they decided to substitute 's' with 'z' in words such as visualise (vs visualize). Just had to be different, but couldn't be bothered to invent an entirely new language of their own ;)

[firey]

Im canadian but yea here: check = checkmark, or to check something out. cheque = what my pay comes on. my pay-cheque. On a side note, chrome doesn't seam to recognize the word "Cheque"

[Glassed Silver]

Cheque for me...

Check just reminds me of tick boxes :D

Glassed Silver:mac

[buckboii]

Cheque...

[andrew_f]

Cheque, that's how I've always seen it spelt here in the UK - apart from "paycheck", but that's probably an Americanism.

[The Laughing Man]

Check, because Chequebook isnt a word. and neither is paycheque.

[andrew_f]

Check, because Chequebook isnt a word.

I would beg to differ ;)

[The Laughing Man]

I would beg to differ ;)

Oh?

[andrew_f]

Oh?

I'm just kidding. It's just another American English - British English difference :) Here we would call it a Chequebook, not a Checkbook. It's strange how these little differences pop up.

[The Laughing Man]

I'm just kidding. It's just another American English - British English difference :) Here we would call it a Chequebook, not a Checkbook. It's strange how these little differences pop up.

This is so true.

[KoL Veteran]

I use check in English, cheque in Spanish. :p

[KamiQuazi]

Here in the South, I have always seen it as Check and not cheque.