archer@hsi.UUCP (Yrrag Rehcra) (10/08/86)
In response to > In article <718@argon.idec.stc.co.uk> normanh@idec.stc.co.uk (Norman Hilton) writes: > >....... > That's what I said - Chambers (1966 edition) describes "Scotch" as "being > disliked or resented by many Scotsmen". > I have read the articles posted from England discussing the usage of the word Scotch implying anything Scottish with much interest. My Scottish friends and I (I am English) here in Connecticut, U.S.A., cringe when the Scots are refered to as Scotch... AARRGGHH! Our American friends here are amongst the worst offenders at calling the Scots "Scotch", it gets tiresome explaining that "Scotch" is whisky (the correct spelling, I believe, rather than whiskey... correct me if I'm wrong!) to use one example. However, I did learn one thing today... > BTW "scotch" is used in the NE of England to refer to beer brewed in the > Scottish "heavy" style rather than the English "bitter" style - you > often can sometimes see startled Southerners when some asks for a "pint > of scotch". (N.B. Note that US readers may interpret this completely > erroneously as referring to a bottle of whisky) > I'm originally from Derbyshire, so I imagine the use of "scotch" for heavy Scottish brews is Geordie dialect. -- Garry Archer Esq. ihnp4!hsi!archer Health Systems International New Haven, CT 06511 USA
simon@einode.UUCP (Simon Kenyon) (10/15/86)
> Andy is just "a simple man from the land of the bogs and the little > people" so you cant expect him to understand these subtle issues. Isn't > Irish Whiskey what they have left when they have extracted the Guinness > from the potatoes :-) ??? > > Lindsay naughty naughty lindsay! -- Simon Kenyon EUnet: simon@einode.UUCP Smail: The National Software Centre, Dublin, IRELAND Phone: +353-1-716255 EUnet is a registered trademark of the EUUG