[GNC] Cheque (was: Kind of a Philosophical Question about Transaction Dates)

[Adam H. Kerman]

10:08pm -0000 03/04/26 Hartmut W Sager <hwsager at marityme.net> wrote:

>It's not just "you Aussies", it's the entire rest of the English-speaking 
>world, including my own Canada, that uses "cheques".  The use of 
>"cheques" also eliminates ambiguity in the expression "checks and 
>balances".

Hey! Czech out the etymology! According to the Wikipedia page, it's not an 
American simplification but an English complication! Until 1826, it had been 
spelled "check", but the spelling was changed to match the French. The word 
came from French, Latin, Arab, and Persion and is related to the other 
definition.

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