User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Spelling debates/@comment-24894325-20151219214614/@comment-5918438-20151220133336

What I've found so far:
 * Obviously for the most part, draughts being used as the principal name for that game: draughts
 * As cited above, "chequers" is the correct British spelling of the word, when used: chequers
 * The script to The Silver Turk uses "checkers" spelling: checkers
 * Support for "chequered"— chequered
 * "chequered dish-towel" x2 (PROSE: Nightdreamers)
 * "red-chequered stockings on their brawny legs" (PROSE: World Game)
 * "a grid of small pyramid-shaped keys arranged in a complex chequer-board pattern" (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Sontaran Experiment)
 * "... was patterned with a multi-coloured chequer-board of tiny coded panels ... leaned against the chequered section of wall ..." (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Ark in Space)
 * "the broad hall with its pattern of chequered tiles ... [the Daleks] failed to see anything unusual in the red and white chequered pattern on the floor of the hall" (PROSE: Death to the Daleks novelisation)
 * "trying hard to keep up with the Doctor's erratic steps across the huge chequered floor" (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Ribos Operation)
 * "'The Captain was referring, rather unkindly, to what some consider my somewhat chequered career' ... 'You said earlier that your career could be seen as somewhat – chequered, I think was the word?'" (PROSE: World Game)
 * Support for "checkered"— checkered
 * "checkered Rupert scarf" (PROSE: Time and Relative)
 * "flamboyant checkered cloak" (PROSE: The Five Doctors)
 * "long checkered sock" (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen)
 * "checkered sports jacket" (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Android Invasion; on first glance, source uses American honourifics)
 * Chinese chequers (spelling from Revolution Man: chequers
 * How to Play Four-dimensional Chinese Checkers, and Win (short story): checkers
 * "the crest of the Cyrrhenic Imperial Exchequer" (Doctor Who and the Ribos Operation: exchequer
 * In PROSE: Millennium Shock, "Chequers" is apprently the name of the Prime Minster Terry Brooks' private residence: Chequers
 * Doctor Moon is described as a "virus checker" (cannot confirm spelling, but don't really need to): in-universe example of "checker" being used in a different sense, which would make no sense as chequer and absolutely should not be replaced.
 * Hence, if we do decide chequer is the correct spelling, this cannot be maintained by bot, at least not without a lot of manual filtering. There will be exceptions where the spelling absolutely should be checker, certainly.