On 22/09/05, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
"Rowan Collins" rowan.collins@gmail.com
In the UK, a "bill" is never a banknote, and a "check" is never anything to do with money. We have "cheques", which are the things you write on and sign to pay for something, but that's something different again.
To be fair, we do have "Mr Check Please!", but he's fictional, so he doesn't count :-)
Yeah, it's always bugged me slightly that he says it "in American" - but maybe it doesn't seem that way to the writers, in the sociolect they use; language varies, and language changes...
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]