• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      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

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

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

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          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

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        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.

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        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.

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          And that’s why in language switchers there should be “English” and “Simplified English”.

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            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