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A Scotsman who spells Whisky with an ‘e’, should be hand cuffed and thrown head first in the Dee. In the USA and Ireland, it’s spelt with an ‘e’
by netvarun 7y ago
A Scotsman who spells
Whisky with an ‘e’,
should be hand cuffed
and thrown head first in the Dee.
In the USA and Ireland,
it’s spelt with an ‘e’
but in Scotland
it’s real ‘Whisky’.
So if you see Whisky
and it has an ‘e’,
only take it,
if you get it for free!
For the name is not the same
and it never will be,
a dram is only a real dram,
from a bottle of ‘Scotch Whisky’.
~ Stanley Bruce.
[1] http://thearrogantmale.blogspot.com/2011/04/helpful-poem-to-remember-difference.html?m=1 http://thearrogantmale.blogspot.com/2011/04/helpful-poem-to-...
- S_A_P 7y agoFor those who don’t know what the “dee” referred to in the poem is, it’s a river in northeast Scotland near Aberdeen. [1] 1- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Dee,_Aberdeenshire https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Dee,_Aberdeenshire
- stevekemp 7y agoFor bonus-points the prefix "Aber" on Scottish place-names largely means "at the mouth of a river". So you have "At the mouth of the river"-Deen. (Though of course the real rivers are the Dee and the Don, so it isn't as simple as it should be!)
- chrisdhoover 7y agoStanley Bruce can pound the sand on the banks of the Dee. In the world of whiskey, there are great bottles from Scotland, Ireland, the US, Japan, and the even Mexico, although they call whiskey tequila.
- chrisseaton 7y agoWhat drives someone to feel the need to gatekeep so aggressively like this?
- vinay427 7y agoI suspect that it's some interpretation of how to protect and maintain culture. This reverence of tradition is definitely much stronger in some places than others.