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[Fwd: Aqua vit]
From:
Kent Graham <[log in to unmask]>
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Open discussions on the writer's craft <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:55:12 -0500
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Subject: Aqua vit
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:10:15 -0500
From: "J. Madison Davis" <[log in to unmask]>
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I've always been fond of the old spelling "uisquebaugh" or its 
variations. I don't know about the Regency. I know Gov. Alexander 
Spotswood had a huge selection of it on his trip to explore the western 
mountains of Virginia in the mid 18th. Random House dictionary dates it 
"[170515; short for whiskybae < Ir uisce beatha or ScotGael uisge 
beatha, ult. trans. of ML aqua vitae lit., water of life; cf. USQUEBAUGH]"

and it also says that whisky (neat, no e) is used especially for Scotch 
and Canadian, but doesn't say preferred or anything like that

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