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Old 12-29-20, 02:16 PM   #22
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Icon8 Hardly a"useless historical fact"!
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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace View Post
Whiskey was invented to keep the Scots and Irish from ruling the world.
That's WHISKY in Scotland; WHISKEY in Ireland, ya illiterate bugger!
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It is widely believed that during the 19th century, Ireland’s distillers began to use the ‘e’ as a way to differentiate their whiskeys from Scotch. They were becoming more popular and were regarded as being of higher quality. Having a different spelling gave the Irish another way of distinguishing between the two styles. Marketing, in other words.
https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/as...two-spellings/
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