"rain-cheques"

[UniPol]

Just saw this on the ATS web site regarding S-Bigs 90 day sale :

"Offer vaild while stock lasts, ends November 2011. Stictly no rain-cheques".

Could do with a touch up with the good old spell check...er

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by UniPol

Just saw this on the ATS web site regarding S-Bigs 90 day sale :

"Offer vaild while stock lasts, ends November 2011. Stictly no rain-cheques".

Could do with a touch up with the good old spell check...er

Cheque is the business spelling of check.

[jenchris (Jennifer)]

Better than wind-dimes or hailimony

[koputai (Jason)]

Spool chuckers never work properly anyway........

Cheers,
Jason.

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Cheque is the business spelling of check.

"cheque" is the UK spelling and "check" the US spelling for "a written order directing a bank to pay money".

"check" would be correct in this context, "to put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb".

[Waxing_Gibbous (Peter)]

I think the expression comes from outdoor events way-back-when.
If rain cancelled a baseball game or some-such, a ticket holder would get a special ticket or stub letting them attend the next game gratis.
Presumably "cheque" or "check" was used ironically.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Wish it would "rain" cheques

Ones that don't bounce!!!!

And have numerous zeros after the "1"

[rally]

It seems there is no need to correctly spell - Nobody picked up the typo !

Wonder how long it will take ?

[Dennis]

I did not avail myself of a spell check, even though it was available, as I figured it was not a valid approach.

Cheers

Dennis

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by renormalised

wish it would "rain" cheques

ones that don't bounce!!!!:p

and have numerous zeros after the "1":p

$0.01000000000000000000000 ?

[tlgerdes (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by rally

It seems there is no need to correctly spell - Nobody picked up the typo !

Wonder how long it will take ?

You mean "Stickly" rather than "Strictly"

Saw that one easy enough, but wasnt sure whether it was Steves typo or the websites.