Duke of URL wrote:
> In news:3FFBD4BF.2080406@hotmail.com,
> Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> radiated into the
> WorldWideWait:
> 
>>Brett Robson wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 08:54:44 -0600, Duke of URL  ...
>>>
>>>>It's properly spelled "whiskey". And it's appropriate for all
>>>>climes and environs.
>>>
>>>Well I have a bottle of Black Douglas on my kitchen bench that
>>>claims to be "Scotch Whisky". Now granted it may have been made in
>>>Hong Kong under licence by Suntory, but that's good enough for me.
>>>I ken taste the tartan in it.
>>
>>All Scotch is labelled whisky. Two theories...
>>this is because the Scots cannot spell,
>>or
>>because the anglicisation/bastardisation of uisgebeatha took place
>>in two different places more or less independently.
>>(The second theory has its proponents, but it doesn't lead to as
>>many interesting drinking arguments)

Natch. Of course please feel free to buy me a bottle (no dammit, a case, 
I promise I'll share some of it with you though) of Knappogue Castle 
1951 and tell me a third theory. Oral traditions are so much easier....


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