"Declan Murphy" <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3FFCC8ED.7050502@hotmail.com...
> Phil \"Fair & Balanced\" MacRackin wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Indeed. Though where would 99.9% of the population be without some
> superfluous thing or other?
>
Well, it's all a corruption of our own fair Gaelic, isn't it?