Tick / check all that apply.

[pinkie9]

This is about a questionnaire.
In BrE, you say "Please tick all that apply." In AmE, you say "Please check all that apply."
If it's a questionnaire to be filled in by various kinds of English-speaking people (such as pepole from the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand), how should I write?
How about "Please place a check mark to all that apply"?

Thank you.

 

[probus]

Canadians understand and use both tick and check. If you want something universal how about mark? "Mark each box that applies" works for me.

 

[Rover_KE]

'Please :tick: each box that applies.

 

[pinkie9]

'Please :tick: each box that applies.

That's a great idea:-D, but I'd like to express it with words.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Canadians understand and use both tick and check. If you want something universal how about mark? "Mark each box that applies" works for me.

I am not sure all Americans will understand "tick". I think "mark" is good choice.

 

[Rover_KE]

I am not sure all Americans will understand "tick". I think "mark" is good choice.

But some would mark it with an :cross:. Would that invalidate your questionnaire, pinkie?

 

[pinkie9]

But some would mark it with an :cross:. Would that invalidate your questionnaire, pinkie?

Technically, :cross: is a cross mark, not a check/tick mark. But if that happens, I guess we would regard it as the same as a check mark not to invalidate our questionnaire.

 

[BobK]

Technically, :cross: is a cross mark, not a check/tick mark. But if that happens, I guess we would regard it as the same as a check mark not to invalidate our questionnaire.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'technically'; in fact, I seldom am when anyone says it. ;-)

Written language is, I'm afraid, mediated widely through Windows. Windows has checkboxes and when you click them (to signify yes) Windows fills them in with a :cross:.

I don't see the need to resist Rover's suggestion. In a document that has to work in many languages and cultures, pictures are clearer than words.

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[Tdol]

If the instructions are by the boxes they have to mark/check/tick, it will be clear to most people what you want. However, could you use a word and a graphic?

 

[emsr2d2]

Is it a handwritten form or will they be completing it online?