Declan Murphy wrote:
> 
> 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....

Think about how much ink and paper have been saved over the centuries by
omitting leaving out the superfluous "e". It would come to *dozens* of
pounds/marks/whatever.

> 
> --
> I am not who I think I am
> I am not who you think I am
> I am who I think you think I am
> 
> ...or some such shite.

Whatever.