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[-] glimse@lemmy.world 61 points 7 months ago

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 42 points 7 months ago

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

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 23 points 7 months ago

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

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 months ago

You just described the evolution of all language. Nothing unique to US America there.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

You act like it wasn’t a dictionary author who taught us to misspell everything

[-] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months 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

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 months ago

Oh you mean bagget, doovay, and kaphay?

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

And we line up in a Q

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

WOOOOAAAHHHH THERE! Not me!

(I couldn't resist, yes ikwym lol)

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[-] Arrkk@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Even more fun if you are an American engineer, where a rounded edge uses the English pronunciation for no good reason.

[-] SkinnyTimmy@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Mate the french pronounce it like this: https://youtu.be/0FtA2UeZLgY?si=okQ63PbWjtbLlyRv

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] Aux@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

And that's why in language switchers there should be "English" and "Simplified English".

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Or just American English and British. It’s taken on a life of its own.

Or idk call it what you want in your country’s software and see how widespread of a convention you get it to be

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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

"Spell me like one of your French words..."

[-] raynethackery@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago

Peyczech

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

You can't pay people with other people!

[-] example@reddthat.com 16 points 7 months ago

it worked in the past

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[-] Isakk86@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Pipoca@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

People arguing that another dialect is incorrect are, and will always be, incorrect.

All dialects are valid.

Both paycheck and paycheque are spelled correctly, in their respective contexts.

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[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Fuck you!

[-] Metans@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

*Fuque You

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[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

10th GPD country tells people how to spell Gehaltsscheck

[-] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago

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

[-] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 10 points 7 months ago

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

[-] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 7 months ago

Commonwealth countries:

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[-] shasta@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

Check is the original spelling in the English language.[4][5] The newer spelling, cheque (from the French), is believed to have come into use around 1828

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

That sounds fantastique.

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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 19 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 17 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 months ago

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

[-] hansl@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Cheques and balances.

[-] Kemwer@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Right.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Right.

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[-] Stamets@startrek.website 10 points 7 months ago

As a Canadian, I feel you. I couldn't give less of a fuck about colour but if you say 'check' to me when you're talking about a 'cheque' then we're gonna have words and none of them will be sorry.

[-] dellish@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Queue is another one that shits me when people spell it "cue" or something.

[-] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 14 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 7 months ago

Except for the metre-system, which is objective more correct

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

Metric

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[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Zedbra anyone?

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 7 months ago

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).

[-] Thranduil@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Depends in some games you get manafrom actions

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[-] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months 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.

[-] tronx4002@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

*Manna

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