What is your alcoholic beverage of choice?

[Mr Haematocrit]

Unfortunately, it is the seller who cannot spell properly. If you click on his link, it takes you here, where the spelling is correct. WHISKY! Oh, and GlenlivEt too, just to be really pedantic.

I do not disagree with what has been stated, I'm just bemused how much 'spelling' has become a debate in this thread. Mine or other peoples. The impact of self correcting typo's on computers/tablets with American dictionary's has not been considered.
All we need is a grammer Nazi and I am done for.
The reality is IMHO that people were under no doubt regarding what drink I was talking about, and expressing myself effectively is far more important.

As people were being excessively pedantic I simply showed that it worked both ways. The challenge set made no requirements to ensure that whiskey was spelt correctly on the site or had to match what was stated on the bottle. The challenge I was set made no requirement that the purchase link had to remain on the site and could not link to a site with the correct spelling.

From a pedantic point of view I have completed the task.

 

[raleighnut]

[QUOTE 3093005, member: 259"]They're bringing out Buckies in cans!



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Less Punctures

 

[User169]

Not at all. I believe there is a difference in origin between whisky and whiskey - with whiskey, I believe, coming from Ireland and North America. Different beverage. So no, it was not pedantry but accuracy.

That's rather counfounded by the fact that, as Mr H demonstrated, north americans tend to refer to all whisk(e)y as whiskey. The OED describes two separate conventions: one based on origin of the product and one based on origin of the writer.

 

[stephec]

Zzzzzzz.

Now let's all calm down and go to the pub so we can all get bladdered and forget about it.

 

[User482]

Not at all. I believe there is a difference in origin between whisky and whiskey - with whiskey, I believe, coming from Ireland and North America. Different beverage. So no, it was not pedantry but accuracy.

No, it is the same product. There are regional variations in spelling.

 

[hoopdriver]

No, it is the same product. There are regional variations in spelling.

I think you'd find the Scots, Irish and them folks down in Tennessee might see more to it than just a matter of spelling.

 

[User482]

I think you'd find the Scots, Irish and them folks down in Tennessee might see more to it than just a matter of spelling.

I strongly suspect that most Scots, Irish and Americans just get on with drinking the stuff rather than trying to fit angels onto the head of a pin.

 

[surfdude]

betty stoggs . lovely pint .

 

[hoopdriver]

I strongly suspect that most Scots, Irish and Americans just get on with drinking the stuff rather than trying to fit angels onto the head of a pin.

Here's a thought. Drop around sometime when they are enjoying their local drop and advance the idea that it's all the same thing anywhere in the world you go - just grain squeezin's is all... Just some folks spell funny...

 

[marknotgeorge]

I can't drink, so to stop me filling up with sugary, fizzy pop on a night out I investigate alcohol-free beers. Bavaria is good, as is Bitburger Drive. Becks Blue is okay, but tastes a bit chemical, Kopparberg is like a less sweet Fanta, and you can shove that dusty old bottle of Kaliber where the sun doesn't shine. My favourite is still Erdinger Alkoholfrei wheat beer. It's isotonic too...

 

[User482]

Here's a thought. Drop around sometime when they are enjoying their local drop and advance the idea that it's all the same thing anywhere in the world you go - just grain squeezin's is all... Just some folks spell funny...

Here's a thought. Laphroaig and Glenkinchie taste very different, so perhaps they shouldn't both be referred to as "whisky". Why not give them a call and suggest it to them?

Not that I expect you to recognize the point. Or even recognise it.

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

It is also with noting that the highly regarded Encyclopedia Britannica makes no mention what so ever that the correct spelling for distilled liquor produced from Scotland as being what is stated in this thread, it states they are interchangable and simply notes the alternative spelling.

Whiskey, also spelled whisky, any of several distilled liquors made from a fermented mash of cereal grains and including Scotch, Irish, and Canadian whiskeys and the various whiskeys of the United States. Whiskey is always aged in wooden containers, usually of white oak. The name, spelled without an e by the Scots and Canadians and with an e in Ireland and the United States, comes from the Celtic usquebaugh (Irishuiscebeathadh, Scots Gaelic uisge beatha, both adaptations of the Latin phrase aqua vitae, meaning “water of life”). The earliest direct account of whiskey making is found in Scottish records dating from 1494.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/641919/whiskey

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

I'm done... I need a whiskey

 

[User482]

[QUOTE 3093089, member: 259"]Plenty of ice and coke in it, I hope?[/QUOTE]

Ha! I was once berated in Scotland for adding a small amount of water to my whisky.

 

[SteCenturion]

& thank you @Mr Haematocrit for posting a link which contained (a linked) photo shot of possibly the most desirable bottle I have ever laid eyes on.

I am of course referring to the finery encapsulating that bottle of Highland Park 50.

With compliments.


Cheesed off.