Heh. The closest book to me with a blue cover is Fowler's Modern English Usage:
"checquer, checker. The first spelling is very much commoner in Britain for both the noun and the verb. The U.S. game checkers is the British draughts."
I did not know that! I don't know what I imagined draughts was, but certainly not checkers.
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Date: 2006-06-05 05:26 am (UTC)"checquer, checker. The first spelling is very much commoner in Britain for both the noun and the verb. The U.S. game checkers is the British draughts."
I did not know that! I don't know what I imagined draughts was, but certainly not checkers.