TOTALLY OT: Whisky/whiskey

["Bailey, Jim" <JBailey@corporate.southam.ca>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen P. Goodman [mailto:spgoodman@earthlight.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 6:08 AM
>
> I've come to wonder that it was this and not just a spelling 
> error that made
> the difference between "whiskey" and "whisky".

For the record (which has a scratch, causing the stylus to skip thereby
creating a loop <-- RELEVANCE ;->), in Ireland and, I believe, the U.S.,
it's "whiskey," and in Scotland, here in Canada, and maybe a few other
places, it's "whisky."

My knowledge, though, ain't exactly encyclopaedic, so don't carve that in
stone. It's just the way I've always understood it to be. Like it really
matters.

Jim Bailey
Laphroaig fan since 1982