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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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