[Ads-l] Check/bill

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Janet Nguyen's piece about restaurant check/bill has been posted on marketplace.org
>
> https://www.marketplace.org/2022/08/05/check-please-but-wait-isnt-it-a-bill/

Thanks for the link Peter.
Here is a citation in 1891 in which a “dinner check” appears to mean a
ticket that one buys which enables the bearer to obtain a meal (as
discussed in my previous message).

Year: August 29, 1891
Periodical: Harper's Weekly
Article: The Canoe Meet at Lake Champlain
Author: C. B. Vaux
Database: Google Books Full View

https://books.google.com/books?id=zkJaAAAAYAAJ&q=%22dinner+check%22#v=snippet&

[Begin excerpt]
He is quite likely to buy a fifty-cent dinner check and get a "square"
meal at the mess-shed before the day is over.
[End excerpt]

Garson

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