Tick or Check

When writing documentation, I dislike to state “check the checkbox”, or “check the XYZ checkbox”. It is a very inelegant phrase that is somewhat required by American English standards, since we have decided that the action of putting a checkmark in a checkbox is named checking. Even more confusing, albeit easily dealt with, is requesting a user to verify a setting: “Check that the XYZ checkbox is not checked.” Yikes!

British English uses a different term for the action of placing a check, or the name of the check itself. The first time I ran across the term it felt uncomfortable, but I have drifted toward its use. The word is “tick”, as in:
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“Tick the checkbox,”
or “Verify the checkbox is ticked.”

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