Path: utzoo!censor!clunk!lsuc!ncrcan!hcr!john
From: john@hcr.UUCP (John R. MacMillan)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Scotch Whisky
Message-ID: <4689@hcr.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 89 06:22:07 GMT
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In article <23152@watmath.waterloo.edu> rbutterworth@watmath.UUCP writes:
|>  From derome@neat.ai.toronto.edu  Tue Jan 17 17:02:40 1989
|>  I am learning something. Any reason why the spelling is different?
|
|I really don't know of any real reason for the spellings though,
|other than tradition.

For what it's worth, "Spirits and Liqueurs" says:

	"Scotch whisky (pl. whiskies) is spelled without the e because
	Scottish exporters want to cleary distinguish their product.
	Canadian distillers have followed suit.

	"Irish manufacturers prefer their whiskey (pl. whiskeys) with
	an e, as do most Americans, although the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,
	Tobacco and Firearms omits it from their standards."

I found the last part (particularly the name of the Bureau)
interesting.
-- 
John R. MacMillan		"These are not gods that you bow down to
{utcsri,utzoo}!hcr!john		 These are only people doing what they do."