Irish Whiskey The word Whiskey is an Anglicisation the act of changing of spoken or written elements of another language of the Gaelic term "uisce beatha" "water of life". Back in the late 1800's Irish and American distilleries adopted the spelling "whiskey" vs "whisky" to distinguish their higher quality products from cheaper Scottish spirits. Today, the spelling whisky is generally used for whiskies distilled in Australia, Canada, Japan, Scotland, and Wales, while whiskey is used for the spirits distilled in Ireland and the U.S.A.
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Shake your Shamrocks The Shamrock, a symbol of Ireland is a three-leafed old white clover, known in Gaelic as seamair bhán, or the lesser clover seamair bhuí. A diminutive Irish version of the word for "little clover" (seamair) is "seamróg" which was anglicised as "shamrock". The four-leafed clover an uncommon varity of the three-leafed clover is often confused with the shamrock. A four-leaf clover the symbol of good luck, the three-leaf clover is mainly an Irish Christian symbol of the Holy Trinity - unity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. A real four-leaf clover has one smaller leaf that the other three - odds of finding one is estimated at 10,000 to 1! Clovers can have more than four leaflets: the most ever recorded is twenty-one, a record set in June 2008
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