Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the info. I didn't know it was made in Northern Ireland. During the eight years I lived in England, circa 1970+, I couldn't find Bushmills, the attitude being that the Irish couldn't do anything well. In fact, driving home from work one evening, I was shocked to hear a BBC program telling "Irish jokes", the same jokes we used to know here as "Polish jokes". Herb >Pedantic about the different names; Bushmills is made in Northern Ireland, >which is part of the UK but not part of GB ;-) > >john > >-----Original Message----- > >Huh? > > > >Now you get in to other areas, Bushmills is made in the UK but not > >Britain ;-) > > > >john > >________________________________________ > > > > > >I stand corrected. Ireland and U.S. have same spelling: > > > >Is it whiskey or whisky ? Note that the British and Canadian spelling > >is without the : e, so that properly one would write of : Scotch whisky > >or : Canadian whisky , but : Kentucky bourbon whiskey or : > >Irish whiskey . > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you.