'whisky' is a perfectly correct word to use in written English.
You can use it anytime you are referring to the alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash. For example, "John loves to enjoy a glass of whisky after a long day at work."
He returned to Japan with his wife and founded Nikka, a company that, along with Suntory, is one of the pillars of the Japanese whisky industry.
The nascent Japanese whisky industry was built on Scottish components: Scottish stills, Scottish barley and even, it is alleged, Scottish water, were shipped to Japan.
What must have really stung was that the top-placed European whisky was the Chapter 14 Not Peated, which is from England! You'd be a brave man to order that at the Highlander.
But it doesn't hide the disappointment of the lack of whisky.
You can get both Baileys and Grant's whisky at £10.49 a litre.
At Portavadie, a remote promontory at the mouth of Loch Fyne, a £45m glass-fronted marina and leisure development is being built by the Bulloch family, a Scottish whisky dynasty.
It is now 41 years since the machinists of Dagenham took tea (not sherry or whisky) with the employment secretary.
New Scottish National party MPs are being lobbied by voters in the rest of the UK who are promising to holiday in Scotland and buy more whisky if they vote against the repeal of the hunting ban.
I dilute his whisky when I am able to, but not by too much, as he can tell by the taste if it is too watered down.
The new forecasts emerged as George Osborne unveiled a series of new tax measures and sweeteners for oil and whisky businesses and the economy of north-eastern Scotland and the Highlands, where the Liberal Democrats are fighting to hold onto key Westminster seats.
Cohen was gifted a whisky and brandy set from Scottish indie IWC Media, part of Zodiak Entertainment.
