Dana wrote:
BTW, I had Kasabi (back when she was teaching at Servalan's boarding school...well, you had to be there) pour herself a drink. I couldn't remember if it was supposed to be "whisky" or "whiskey" so I went back and changed it to "gin."
Oh no! Kasabi would never drink anything so vile as gin! (This is partly the awful smell, and partly that I really am in a time warp on drinks. I still think of gin as "mother's ruin", and thus very downmarket, even though I know it's supposed to be the preferred tipple of Tory colonels.) Kasabi's definitely a whisky-drinker. Or even whiskey, if she has Irish antecedents. (You could also avoid the problem by saying "Scotch", which would be interpreted as whisky in most British pubs, unless you were in the north-east where it appears to be some sort of beer.)