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)