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From: "Taid Deri" <>
Subject: Re: census row pensioner jailed for a week
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:45:15 -0000
References: <cahvoDAt5Vg8Ew7v@hyperpeople.demon.co.uk><200203031717.g23HH3W43585@mail.freeola.enta.net><a60a98$dls$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk>, <iREQ6GA7G+g8Ewt4@hyperpeople.demon.co.uk>
"Don Moody" wrote
>, Taid Deri writes
> >
> >> If Scotch whisky is spelt without the "e" and Irish whiskey with an
> >> "e" how, pray, is the Welsh variety spelt???
> >
> >Wisgi (in Welsh)
>
>
> Much as it might upset the gentleman about whom this thread started,
> does this indicate that the Welsh are a Bantu nation or that the Bantu
> are Welsh? In Luganda, for example, the drink is Waragi; and slight
> variations W...gi in other Bantu languages.
On the grounds that we all originate from Africa I suppose it could , but in
more modern terms it is most closely related to the original spelling of
whisky, i.e. in the Gaelic.
uisge (-beatha, for the purists).:-)
Hwyl
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