What’s In a Name: Whisky or Whiskey?
Boozin Gear’s Boozin’ Blog explores this question that puzzles many, Whiskey or Whisky? What’s the deal, why haggle over an ‘e’? Both words have the same basic meaning “water of life”. The distinction is in geography and composition, ‘Whisky’ refers to the Scotch version and ‘Whiskey’ the Irish version. Apparently, this distinction got even more complicated once both Scotch and Irish Distillers came to North America.
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