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im gonna be honest. as a canadian (a francophone canadian, even), i think check is a more sensible spelling than cheque.
i honestly don’t understand the anglo obsession with keeping french spellings intact in english for french loanwords. these spellings (usually) make sense in french, in a way they typically don’t in english, so why not change it?
Because it's a cheque, not a check
what’s the difference? (genuinely asking, english is not my first language)
In British/commonwealth English, a bank draft to send or receive money from someone else is a cheque, pronounced the same as check.
Check has lots of other definitions too, in us English you use check for any of them
Chancellor of the Exchequer
A cheque is money in a different form. A check is a symbol.
même affaire pour le français btw, je pense qu’on devrait changer des mots comme shampooing, wagon et fjord en champouin, vagon et fiord. ça fait juste plus de sens
Why? To be honest, the change you propose just makes them seem Dutch to me…