3:14am -0000 03/05/26 Peter West <[email protected]> wrote: >Yes, but...
>The existence of an Exchequer in England is first recorded in 1110. (Wikipedia) >exchequer(n.) >c. 1300, "a chessboard, checkerboard," from Anglo-French escheker "a >chessboard," from Old French eschequier, from Medieval Latin scaccarium "chess >board" (see check <https://www.etymonline.com/word/check#etymonline_v_11208> >(n.1); also see checker ><https://www.etymonline.com/word/checker#etymonline_v_47185> (n.2)). The >governmental sense of "department of the royal household concerned with the >receipt, custody, and disbursement of revenue and with judicial determination >of certain causes affecting crown revenues" began under the Norman kings of >England and refers to a cloth divided in squares that covered a table on which >accounts of revenue were reckoned by using counters, and which reminded people >of a chess board. Respelled with an -x- based on the mistaken belief that it >originally was a Latin ex- word. Good find! They were doing "New Latin" nonsense even back to the beginning of Middle English! >Hence: "a counter-register as a token of ownership used to check against, and >prevent, loss or theft" (as in hat check, etc.), 1812. Hence also the >financial use for "written order for money drawn on a bank, money draft" >(1798, often spelled cheque), which was probably influenced by exchequer ><https://www.etymonline.com/word/exchequer>. >Etymonline This stuff is fascinating. Thank you. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
