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Whisky Dammit!

Sanity prevails at the NYT:

I shall spare you the other email comments I’ve received, except this one, from a gentleman in Scotland: “Sadly the word ‘whiskey’ conjures up a very different brew here in Scotland. Scotch Whisky it has ever been, and ‘Scotch Whiskey’ an embarrassing solecism unworthy of The New York Times.’’

By solecism, he means, according to my dictionary, a nonstandard usage or grammatical construction and a violation of etiquette.


The crime.
The outpour.
The victory.

Thanks for daringfireball.net (mostly a Mac RSS feed) for this sweetness!

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