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[Frumple]

Is spelling "cheque" as "check" an American thing, or was it an honest mistake and I'm an arsehole for pointing it out?

Bit of column A. They're both recognized, generally, but most folks I've ran into spell it check unless they're feeling meaninglessly fancy. It could be an honest mistake, too, though. The spellcheck on this browser doesn't recognize cheque as a word, so I imagine other folks just trust the spellcheck it's misspelled instead of looking into it further.

[MaximumZero]

I've never seen anyone spell it "cheque", including my sister, who lives in Scotland.

[TD1]

I've seen it very rarely spelled "Check"

By far, it's more commonly "cheque"

[alway]

Jewel Staite did a reddit AMA. This is incredibly entertaining. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2e3t1f/jewel_staite_ama/

[Orange Wizard]

The only time I've seen "check" before is when someone doesn't know how to spell.

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What is it about the letter U that Americans don't like?

[Putnam]

The only time I've seen "check" before is when someone doesn't know how to spell.

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What is it about the letter U that Americans don't like?

It's redondant. How do yoo live with having things spelled like "lieutenant" that aht to be spelled like either "lootennant" in American English or "lofftennant" in british?

[TD1]

Armor, favor, check...can't think of any more atm, and I know there are more.

[Frumple]

What is it about the letter U that Americans don't like?

It's less the letter U and more the extra letter. Check is shorter. Also looks a lot more like what it sounds like. Both good things.

[SealyStar]

The only time I've seen "check" before is when someone doesn't know how to spell.

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What is it about the letter U that Americans don't like?

It's only the digraph ou that's troublesome. It generally represents either "ow" or "oo", never really a schwa outside of those British -our spellings.

[alway]

The only time I've seen "check" before is when someone doesn't know how to spell.

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What is it about the letter U that Americans don't like?

Linguistic evolutions are coming to take away your u's! It's all part of our plot to cement the formation of our empires, you see....

[Orange Wizard]

The only time I've seen "check" before is when someone doesn't know how to spell.

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What is it about the letter U that Americans don't like?

It's redondant. How do yoo live with having things spelled like "lieutenant" that aht to be spelled like either "lootennant" in American English or "lofftennant" in british?

Whuthur ut us rudununt ur nut, ut us thu curruct wuy uf spullung thungs.

As a side note, in NZ only the military types pronounce "lieutenant" as "leftenant" and everyone else thinks they're silly.

[TD1]

Left-tenant.

[Orange Wizard]

Yes.

[SealyStar]

The only time I've seen "check" before is when someone doesn't know how to spell.

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What is it about the letter U that Americans don't like?

It's redondant. How do yoo live with having things spelled like "lieutenant" that aht to be spelled like either "lootennant" in American English or "lofftennant" in british?

Whuthur ut us rudununt ur nut, ut us thu curruct wuy uf spullung thungs.

As a side note, in NZ only the military types pronounce "lieutenant" as "leftenant" and everyone else thinks they're silly.

Eh, the British pronunciation of "lieutenant" irks me, but not so much as the universal spellings of "sergeant" and "colonel" when they should be "sargent" and "kernel".

[tuypo1]

somebody made a funny mami head joke and i got a new avatar out of it