![]() ![]() Normally, going forward we'd probably expect to see chequebook become the preferred spelling, however since cheque books are being used less and less, there's a good chance cheque books may become a thing of the past. Although this does make me wonder if it's because using hyphens is often a problem for people. When used as an adjective with the word journalism, the most common usage was cheque book without the hyphen.īased on these results, for Australian usage, the preferred spelling appears to be cheque book as two words and when used as an adjective, the spelling may not need to be hyphenated. au also indicates cheque book is the preferred spelling. The results returned from Google for sites ending in. The banking industry appears to mostly use cheque book as two words. Finally, if we use chequebook diplomacy and cheque book diplomacy we get 70 results and 44 results respectively.Ĭertainly this is not an easy one. Of the 508 results for cheque book journalism around 30% used the hyphen, as in cheque-book journalism. If we search for cheque book journalism and chequebook journalism the results returned are 508 and 74 respectively. Using the plural cheque books and chequebooks gives 12,000 and 6,320 respectively. au for cheque book and chequebook gives 36,00 and 31,900 respectively. If we perform a search on the NAB, Westpac, Commbank and ANZ sites, our four main banks nearly always use cheque book.Ī search of Google restricting sites those ending in. Two dictionaries with two different spelling variations. The Macquarie Dictionary has the entry chequebook and chequebook journalism. The Australian Oxford dictionary lists cheque book and the hyphenated variation as in cheque-book journalism. The easy task is we can eliminate checkbook (and any variation) as checkbook is listed in the Macquarie Dictionary as the US spelling. But how do you spell the thing you ripped the cheques out off? It's been a long time since I've written a cheque. ![]()
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