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Old 09-15-2009, 08:53 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Janszoon View Post
Wait... what? I think we're operating on completely different information here. To my knowledge "whiskey" and "whisky" are just two different spellings of the same word referring to the same type of alcohol. The word that specifies it being from Scotland is "scotch".
There's a naming culture where these liquors are called whisky (plural "whiskies") in Scotland, Canada, India and Japan and whiskey (plural "whiskeys") in Ireland and America. There are some exceptions to the rule, though. People are more or less serious about this. If you joined a forum for scottish whiskys and use the word "whiskey" to describe them, you would get corrected.

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