Serious question: In Canada, when you are ready to pay and leave the store, do you go to the chequestand and cheque out?
Not needling, I'd really like to know how you handle that.
I'm pretty sure that "check," "check-out," "check-in" etc. are all spelt ("spelled" to you), the same way up here as they are in the USA if that's what you mean.
The homonym "cheque" (meaning those little slips of paper) has always been spelt the other way. Everywhere but the USA I guess.
The clerk behind the desk will have to bite his tongue to keep from laughing out loud.
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I'm pretty sure that "check," "check-out," "check-in" etc. are all spelt ("spelled" to you), the same way up here as they are in the USA if that's what you mean.
The homonym "cheque" (meaning those little slips of paper) has always been spelt the other way. Everywhere but the USA I guess.
It saves on letters thus is good for the environment.
Kidding aside the removal of excess characters does save disk space, makes for easier reading and simply looks better in print.
I used to play Chequers; I'm now an Exchequer. And I lived in the Cheque Republique while (not whilst) I chequed off my daily stock piques. No more craques about how we Ameriquans spell things.
The spellings check, checque, and cheque were used interchangeably from the 17th century until the 20th century.[2] However, since the 19th century, the spelling cheque (from the French word chèque) has become standard for the financial instrument in the Commonwealth and Ireland, while check is used only for the verb "to verify", thus distinguishing the two definitions in writing.[nb 3]
In American English, the usual spelling for both is check.[4]
Cheque is a French word...
You know, for the life me I can't understand why there have been so many fights, wars, and petty grievances over the centuries between the English and the French, and then the English are loathe to modernize their language and get rid of the leftover Norman spellings. Take a basic unit of measurement, the meter, for example. Only French and BritEnglish spell it "metre" in the EU. Everyone else spells it "meter." You'd think that with their Francophobia they'd love to get rid of the pervasive ancient French spellings.
The homonym "cheque" (meaning those little slips of paper) has always been spelt the other way. Everywhere but the USA I guess.
Not true. It's a fact that many other people who speak English as a second language are using USA English when writing in English. I'm not trying to be linguophobic or jingoistic here but I do have several decades of experience abroad and have personally seen this to be the case. The exceptions are, logically, former British colonies, but even in Hong Kong the common English (as opposed to the official English) is written in the American style. Russians, Hungarians, Japanese, Finns, and Germans (among many others) with who I currently correspond use the American style. It's a fact of life and has probably been accelerated by pervasive American English on the Internet.
You know, for the life me I can't understand why there have been so many fights, wars, and petty grievances over the centuries between the English and the French, and then the English are loathe to modernize their language and get rid of the leftover Norman spellings. Take a basic unit of measurement, the meter, for example. Only French and BritEnglish spell it "metre" in the EU. Everyone else spells it "meter." You'd think that with their Francophobia they'd love to get rid of the pervasive ancient French spellings.
The UK are crazy with their units of measurements. From the archiac stones for weight to using Km for distance and MPH for speed on mororways to using F for temp when it's hot and C for when it's cold because they sound more dramatic at those respective ends.
Same way, only it's spell cheque rather than check. A check is what we do in a hockey game - a body check. We also have coloured money so when we drink Canadian beer we can tell the difference between a 5 and a 10 dollar bill.
And we spell rumour with a 'u'. Rumour, humour, colour. But igloo has no 'u', nor does Tim Horton's.
Yes, I'll be the first to admit America screwed too much with the English language and couldn't leave well enough alone by letting Rumour, humour, colour, cheque and more remain in their proper forms.
Yes, people still use "checks". We don't use 'cheques', because we aren't British and aren't influenced by the French language. You should know this professor.
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The homonym "cheque" (meaning those little slips of paper) has always been spelt the other way. Everywhere but the USA I guess.
Actually, the word was derived from the Persian's, and was originally 'چک' or "Chek/Chak" - (negotiable instrument instructing a financial institution to pay a specific amount of a specific currency from a specific demand account held in the maker/depositor's name with that institution.) Seems the American version would be more correct to me?
You should also know that America influences the English language, more than England does. This is a byproduct of the Hollywood/media influence. Turn on your TV, go to a movie theater or flip on the internet anywhere in the Commonwealth to see this.
We also don't stand in 'queues', have 'boots' in our cars, use 'slipways' or 'motorways', wear 'rubbers' on our feet, smoke 'fags', go to the 'theatre', drive 'lorries', etc...
Anyway, it will be interesting to see if NFC can replace the need for bluetooth. A huge market would open to include 3rd party hands free system and devices. Headphones, cash/pay points, hands free devices, remote car starter, etc...
Another reason to hold a small event is to re-emphasize the existence of the new apple TV, for all those countries where it hasn't been introduced yet.
The NFC idea could be huge for Apple. Imagine going up to vending machine, say, and buying a snack there and charging it via your iPhone to your iTunes account. Even 0.5% per transaction could be huge.
It seems to me that thi would really only work well in environments where you are able to get a good cell phone signal (no wi-fi only devices). I know too often I cannot seem to get a good signal inside larger stores like wal-mart, etc.
Serious question: In Canada, when you are ready to pay and leave the store, do you go to the chequestand and cheque out?
Not needling, I'd really like to know how you handle that.
The American version of English is a step or two below the Canadian version. If you want to spin it some other way, fine, but it's best that you not go there. And don't even get me started on the whole metric thing.
Same way, only it's spell cheque rather than check. A check is what we do in a hockey game - a body check. We also have coloured money so when we drink Canadian beer we can tell the difference between a 5 and a 10 dollar bill.
And we spell rumour with a 'u'. Rumour, humour, colour. But igloo has no 'u', nor does Tim Horton's.
So many u's from a people who pronounce "about" as "a-BOOT" ...
The American version of English is a step or two below the Canadian version. If you want to spin it some other way, fine, but it's best that you not go there. And don't even get me started on the whole metric thing.
You are saying that a language is better than another or that the nation of people are beet than another? Either way your comment saddens me.
With so many rumours floating about, many rather contradictory, it's obvious that Apple has done a great job of maintaining secrecy.
Here's what is reasonable to assume. There will be an iPad 2 introduced and going on sale by the end of April. This device is probably going to be lighter, have more power and more memory. No matter how capable, the device will be soundly criticized in the early going by many for what it hasn't added. Also reasonable to assume is that the device will likely go on sale within days of being introduced, not within weeks, and certainly not months.
I think it is unclear what, if anything, Apple will change regarding the display. Most seem satisfied with the current display and yet there is room for improvement. Cost will be the No. 1 issue.
There is no pressure from the competition at this time. Even if all Apple did was make minor improvements, the iPad would remain ahead of anything that appears imminent in 2011 from other companies. If Apple does more than minor tweaking it would be to seriously take hold of the tablet market, repeating the great success the iPod enjoyed in the MP3 space.
The question is, does Apple do a minor upgrade to ride out the coming year or go for the jugular by hauling out the heavy artillery sooner than later. Apple right now has something the others do not. Economies of scale. While the new iPad will sell by the millions, tablets from the other companies will likely sell in low volumes. The competition will, for one thing, be taking less than 50 per cent of this newer market and dividing it up between many competitors. Apple will probably nail down more than half this market and have it all to itself. This is a competitive advantage that Apple will try hard to maintain.
You are saying that a language is better than another or that the nation of people are beet than another? Either way your comment saddens me.
What saddens me is that you don't understand the rather tongue-in-cheek (should I say tongue-in-cheque) nature of my comment.
Some of my best relatives are proud US citizens and fine, intelligent, decent folks none the less. And I would gladly exchange Harper for Obama any day of the week. Sadly, right about now, many Americans are reading this and asking, who's Harper. More alarming, a smaller number - I certainly hope smaller - are asking, who's Obama.
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Serious question: In Canada, when you are ready to pay and leave the store, do you go to the chequestand and cheque out?
Not needling, I'd really like to know how you handle that.
I'm pretty sure that "check," "check-out," "check-in" etc. are all spelt ("spelled" to you), the same way up here as they are in the USA if that's what you mean.
The homonym "cheque" (meaning those little slips of paper) has always been spelt the other way. Everywhere but the USA I guess.
I'm pretty sure that "check," "check-out," "check-in" etc. are all spelt ("spelled" to you), the same way up here as they are in the USA if that's what you mean.
The homonym "cheque" (meaning those little slips of paper) has always been spelt the other way. Everywhere but the USA I guess.
It saves on letters thus is good for the environment.
Kidding aside the removal of excess characters does save disk space, makes for easier reading and simply looks better in print.
People still use cheques (sic)?
I used to play Chequers; I'm now an Exchequer. And I lived in the Cheque Republique while (not whilst) I chequed off my daily stock piques. No more craques about how we Ameriquans spell things.
Sheesh.
From wikipedia:
The spellings check, checque, and cheque were used interchangeably from the 17th century until the 20th century.[2] However, since the 19th century, the spelling cheque (from the French word chèque) has become standard for the financial instrument in the Commonwealth and Ireland, while check is used only for the verb "to verify", thus distinguishing the two definitions in writing.[nb 3]
In American English, the usual spelling for both is check.[4]
Cheque is a French word...
You know, for the life me I can't understand why there have been so many fights, wars, and petty grievances over the centuries between the English and the French, and then the English are loathe to modernize their language and get rid of the leftover Norman spellings. Take a basic unit of measurement, the meter, for example. Only French and BritEnglish spell it "metre" in the EU. Everyone else spells it "meter." You'd think that with their Francophobia they'd love to get rid of the pervasive ancient French spellings.
The homonym "cheque" (meaning those little slips of paper) has always been spelt the other way. Everywhere but the USA I guess.
Not true. It's a fact that many other people who speak English as a second language are using USA English when writing in English. I'm not trying to be linguophobic or jingoistic here but I do have several decades of experience abroad and have personally seen this to be the case. The exceptions are, logically, former British colonies, but even in Hong Kong the common English (as opposed to the official English) is written in the American style. Russians, Hungarians, Japanese, Finns, and Germans (among many others) with who I currently correspond use the American style. It's a fact of life and has probably been accelerated by pervasive American English on the Internet.
You know, for the life me I can't understand why there have been so many fights, wars, and petty grievances over the centuries between the English and the French, and then the English are loathe to modernize their language and get rid of the leftover Norman spellings. Take a basic unit of measurement, the meter, for example. Only French and BritEnglish spell it "metre" in the EU. Everyone else spells it "meter." You'd think that with their Francophobia they'd love to get rid of the pervasive ancient French spellings.
The UK are crazy with their units of measurements. From the archiac stones for weight to using Km for distance and MPH for speed on mororways to using F for temp when it's hot and C for when it's cold because they sound more dramatic at those respective ends.
How are you going to "guarantee" this?
He's got full access to Dr. Tyrell. He knows all.
Cheque it out.
Starbucks is already putting the RF hardware in place for the transactions.
Link?
Same way, only it's spell cheque rather than check. A check is what we do in a hockey game - a body check. We also have coloured money so when we drink Canadian beer we can tell the difference between a 5 and a 10 dollar bill.
And we spell rumour with a 'u'. Rumour, humour, colour. But igloo has no 'u', nor does Tim Horton's.
Yes, I'll be the first to admit America screwed too much with the English language and couldn't leave well enough alone by letting Rumour, humour, colour, cheque and more remain in their proper forms.
People still use cheques (sic)?
Yes, people still use "checks". We don't use 'cheques', because we aren't British and aren't influenced by the French language. You should know this professor.
The homonym "cheque" (meaning those little slips of paper) has always been spelt the other way. Everywhere but the USA I guess.
Actually, the word was derived from the Persian's, and was originally 'چک' or "Chek/Chak" - (negotiable instrument instructing a financial institution to pay a specific amount of a specific currency from a specific demand account held in the maker/depositor's name with that institution.) Seems the American version would be more correct to me?
You should also know that America influences the English language, more than England does. This is a byproduct of the Hollywood/media influence. Turn on your TV, go to a movie theater or flip on the internet anywhere in the Commonwealth to see this.
We also don't stand in 'queues', have 'boots' in our cars, use 'slipways' or 'motorways', wear 'rubbers' on our feet, smoke 'fags', go to the 'theatre', drive 'lorries', etc...
Anyway, it will be interesting to see if NFC can replace the need for bluetooth. A huge market would open to include 3rd party hands free system and devices. Headphones, cash/pay points, hands free devices, remote car starter, etc...
It seems to me that thi would really only work well in environments where you are able to get a good cell phone signal (no wi-fi only devices). I know too often I cannot seem to get a good signal inside larger stores like wal-mart, etc.
That explains why the iPad was such a pathetic failure.
No, everyone knows that the iPad failed because Apple's board hadn't published a succession plan.
Serious question: In Canada, when you are ready to pay and leave the store, do you go to the chequestand and cheque out?
Not needling, I'd really like to know how you handle that.
The American version of English is a step or two below the Canadian version. If you want to spin it some other way, fine, but it's best that you not go there. And don't even get me started on the whole metric thing.
Same way, only it's spell cheque rather than check. A check is what we do in a hockey game - a body check. We also have coloured money so when we drink Canadian beer we can tell the difference between a 5 and a 10 dollar bill.
And we spell rumour with a 'u'. Rumour, humour, colour. But igloo has no 'u', nor does Tim Horton's.
So many u's from a people who pronounce "about" as "a-BOOT" ...
The American version of English is a step or two below the Canadian version. If you want to spin it some other way, fine, but it's best that you not go there. And don't even get me started on the whole metric thing.
You are saying that a language is better than another or that the nation of people are beet than another? Either way your comment saddens me.
Here's what is reasonable to assume. There will be an iPad 2 introduced and going on sale by the end of April. This device is probably going to be lighter, have more power and more memory. No matter how capable, the device will be soundly criticized in the early going by many for what it hasn't added. Also reasonable to assume is that the device will likely go on sale within days of being introduced, not within weeks, and certainly not months.
I think it is unclear what, if anything, Apple will change regarding the display. Most seem satisfied with the current display and yet there is room for improvement. Cost will be the No. 1 issue.
There is no pressure from the competition at this time. Even if all Apple did was make minor improvements, the iPad would remain ahead of anything that appears imminent in 2011 from other companies. If Apple does more than minor tweaking it would be to seriously take hold of the tablet market, repeating the great success the iPod enjoyed in the MP3 space.
The question is, does Apple do a minor upgrade to ride out the coming year or go for the jugular by hauling out the heavy artillery sooner than later. Apple right now has something the others do not. Economies of scale. While the new iPad will sell by the millions, tablets from the other companies will likely sell in low volumes. The competition will, for one thing, be taking less than 50 per cent of this newer market and dividing it up between many competitors. Apple will probably nail down more than half this market and have it all to itself. This is a competitive advantage that Apple will try hard to maintain.
You are saying that a language is better than another or that the nation of people are beet than another? Either way your comment saddens me.
What saddens me is that you don't understand the rather tongue-in-cheek (should I say tongue-in-cheque) nature of my comment.
Some of my best relatives are proud US citizens and fine, intelligent, decent folks none the less. And I would gladly exchange Harper for Obama any day of the week. Sadly, right about now, many Americans are reading this and asking, who's Harper. More alarming, a smaller number - I certainly hope smaller - are asking, who's Obama.