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Originally Posted by Orc
I love Whiskey. All sorts. It's in the blood.
Trivia: It's called Whiskey because the English bastardised the Irish phrase ''Uisce Beatha". Pronounced Ishkeh Bee-aha. Which translates to Water of Life. Ishkeh became Whisky as it was too sensitive to the colonising tongues.
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This is very interesting. I always wondered why there was a difference in spelling. Scots spell it Whisky.