Do you add 'e' to your whisky?

[Sendraguy]

Do you put an ‘e’ in your whisky? Or do you leave it out?

 

Maybe it tastes better. But, of course Scotch Whisky and Bourbon Whiskey are both correct spellings of what in Gaelic is Uisge Beatha, the water of life.

 

And these two spellings are an easy way to remember how to pluralise nouns ending in y, of which there are many!

 

Where the final y is preceded by a consonant, the y pluralises to ies.

 

For example, whisky - whiskies, pony – ponies, duty – duties.

 

And where the final y is preceded by a vowel, the y simply adds an s.

 

For example, whiskey – whiskeys, monkey – monkeys, abbey – abbeys.

 

And the one I always used to trip over,

 

Money!!! though I admit 'moneys' looks a bit odd.....

 

The English Language, eh!

 

 

 

 

 

[Nephylim]

I don't care how it's spelled... I only care how it tastes My favourite is Talisker, closely followed by Mor Ddu. Next would be any single island malt... Oban or Islay; although Jamesons is very close behind

[Tiger]

If you want to use a Scottish English spelling, drop the E. If you want a Hiberno-English spelling, keep the E. I honestly don't think it matters which one you use. It does, however, seem that spell checkers prefer the E.

[Sendraguy]

I don't care how it's spelled... I only care how it tastes My favourite is Talisker, closely followed by Mor Ddu. Next would be any single island malt... Oban or Islay; although Jamesons is very close behind

 

 

A woman after my own heart! I have a fondness for Tomatin ( near Inverness) but any will do, and after I've drunk my host's best malt I move on to the cooking whisky and glug it with Coke. LOL. Best of all, you can still taste it the following morning! ...

 

If you want to use a Scottish English spelling, drop the E. If you want a Hiberno-English spelling, keep the E. I honestly don't think it matters which one you use. It does, however, seem that spell checkers prefer the E.

 

 

In Scotland we use 'whisky' but I must admit the word looks funny, a bit odd. Having an 'e' in kind of makes the word look good on a label.

[option]

If you want to use a Scottish English spelling, drop the E. If you want a Hiberno-English spelling, keep the E. I honestly don't think it matters which one you use. It does, however, seem that spell checkers prefer the E.

 

Its not the language that alters the spelling, its that they are in fact different things;

 

Scottish - Whisky

Irish - Whiskey

America - Tennessee Whiskey (Jack Daniels), Bourbon Whiskey (Jim Beam) etc

 

those are the 3 main different whisky/whiskey sources, covered by different rules & regulations, & using different ingredients & processes to produce their products.

 

 

The word isnt usually pluralised either, though when done so in writing tends towards 'whiskies';

 

(in speech)

A bottle of whisky

You have a lot of whisky

What whisky do you have/stock/sell

 

 

 

 

 

There are some useful 'rules' for the English language, but;

 

there are many, many words that exist in English that were not originally english, & so dont follow any of the rules

english is a language that continues to evolve, so check the real world usage as opposed to a rule

 

some of the 'rules' are actually incorrect

eg. i before e except after c

there are more exceptions to the rule than words that follow the rule

[Kev de Cauchery]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky#Names_and_spellings