The Water of Life

February 28th, 2006 by hashbrown

Thanks to Fjord for turning me on to this article where I discovered:

The term “whisky” derives from the Gaelic “uisge beatha”, or “usquebaugh”, meaning “water of life”.

It sure is.

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1. Hashbrown Says:
   March 6th, 2006 at 3:57 pm

   Looks like that NY Times link is already dead. Someone archived a portion here.
   http://blog.news-record.com/staff/lexblog/archives/2006/02/weaponsgrade_wh.html

2. Dario Tsunami Says:
   March 8th, 2006 at 11:31 pm

   Water of life…

   sooooo nice.