British English: Verb Check

british english: For younger readers, this is a piece of paper used make a payment from a bank account before plastic cards and smartphones came along, according to The Independent. Apparently they still use them in the US, where they spell it check. Our style is British English, which is cheque. The etymology is rather wonderful. A check was originally a counterfoil, a way of keeping track of, or checking, amounts of money paid, but came to refer to the main part of the form that you tear off. It comes from the verb check, meaning to examine something to determine its quality or accuracy. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.