Telling Whiskey from Whisky

Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by netvarun on Saturday October 26, 2019 @06:44PM (#21366736)

  A Scotsman who spells
  Whisky with an ‘e’,
  should be hand cuffed 
  and thrown head first in the Dee.

  In the USA and Ireland, 
  it’s spelt with an ‘e’
  but in Scotland
  it’s real ‘Whisky’. 
  So if you see Whisky 
  and it has an ‘e’,
  only take it,
  if you get it for free! 
  For the name is not the same 
  and it never will be,
  a dram is only a real dram,
  from a bottle of ‘Scotch   Whisky’.
  ~ Stanley Bruce.

[1] http://thearrogantmale.blogspot.com/2011/04/helpful-poem-to-...

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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by chrisdhoover on Saturday October 26, 2019 @10:12PM (#21367490)

Stanley Bruce can pound the sand on the banks of the Dee. In the world of whiskey, there are great bottles from Scotland, Ireland, the US, Japan, and the even Mexico, although they call whiskey tequila.

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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by egdod on Sunday October 27, 2019 @12:06AM (#21367821)

Tequila is not whisk(e)y. It’s fine, but it’s not the same thing.

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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by nailer on Sunday October 27, 2019 @05:35AM (#21368678)

This article calls bourbon whiskey. If we consider whiskey could be made from corn we may as well allow agave or potatos too.

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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by egdod on Sunday October 27, 2019 @02:49PM (#21371641)

Everybody calls bourbon whiskey.

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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by nailer on Monday October 28, 2019 @03:07AM (#21374876)

No, Americans call bourbon whiskey. More to the point, something being common doesn't make it correct.

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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by egdod on Monday October 28, 2019 @09:18AM (#21376651)

Eventually it does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description

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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by smcl on Sunday October 27, 2019 @02:45AM (#21368217)

I think he was just having a bit of fun :-)

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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by S_A_P on Saturday October 26, 2019 @09:24PM (#21367360)

For those who don’t know what the “dee” referred to in the poem is, it’s a river in northeast Scotland near Aberdeen. [1]

1- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Dee,_Aberdeenshire

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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by stevekemp on Sunday October 27, 2019 @11:05AM (#21370159)

For bonus-points the prefix "Aber" on Scottish place-names largely means "at the mouth of a river".

So you have "At the mouth of the river"-Deen. (Though of course the real rivers are the Dee and the Don, so it isn't as simple as it should be!)

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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by chrisseaton on Sunday October 27, 2019 @03:58AM (#21368409)

What drives someone to feel the need to gatekeep so aggressively like this?

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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by vinay427 on Sunday October 27, 2019 @05:09AM (#21368601)

I suspect that it's some interpretation of how to protect and maintain culture. This reverence of tradition is definitely much stronger in some places than others.

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