A WORD IN THE HAND: CHECK
Cheques are gone but we’ll always have fabric’s checked past
A column to satisfy your inner grammar nerd
21 September 2020 - 17:39
My mother, a bookkeeper, impressed on me from the time I could link letters together that when you write out a cheque, never leave space at the beginning of the amount written in both words and numbers – otherwise someone might insert an extra million or two – and always cross out “or bearer” with two swift, sharp strokes. In addition, she taught me to write “not transferable” between two diagonally drawn lines at the top of the cheque...
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