If I were confident of my pronunciations, I might do the same. <g> I've got
Talisker and Jura down, though.
Grey is one of those gray areas where I prefer the British spelling. The word
just _looks_ better, and to the mind's ear, sounds slightly different. As do
the -ise words compared with our -ize. My ear has not been able to distinguish
any difference, but I haven't tuned in properly.
I have decided to be a gadfly and spell as I feel at the moment. <g>
--Bob, spelled the same on both sides of the Atlantic
Sent from my iPhone 6s Plus. This is a perfect mobile device. Any perceived
errors in spelling, grammar, or logic are figments of your imagination.
> On Mar 18, 2016, at 10:12 AM, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Earl Grey - you have to watch those vowels, Bob! But otherwise, agreed 100%.
> You made me think - I never use the term "whisky", it's almost always "a
> Laphroaig", "an Ardbeg" or whatever, that they are single malt Scotch
> whiskies is redundant.
>
> Piers - who has taken tea at Howick Hall, the ancestral home of the Earls
> Grey. I paid my £2.50 in the tea room, just like all the other tourists :-)
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