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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by tptacek on Saturday October 26, 2019 @06:56PM (#21366796)
Or you can just ignore all this silliness and spell it in whatever way looks most natural to you.
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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by oska on Saturday October 26, 2019 @11:08PM (#21367675)
You can and many people do.

However it is not silliness to detail regional variations in spelling, particularly when, as in this case, they give clues to lines of heritage.

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Re:Telling Whiskey from Whisky by egdod on Sunday October 27, 2019 @12:07AM (#21367827)
Spelling things correctly and trying not to look ignorant isn’t silliness.
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