Una said: "I always thought the spellings were a distinction between Scottish whisky and Irish whiskey."
Also my interpretation. However, I decided to look it up and my dictionary says:
whiskey: whisky produced in Ireland or the USA
-- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson
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