On 03/10/2011 9:21 PM, Alain wrote:
> Le 2011/10/03 15:25, Orchid XP v8 a écrit :

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>> Never mind that. WTF is "a wee dram" of whiskey??
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>
> Also spelled «drachm»
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> In a bar, it's 330 ml of whisky...

"A wee dram" is a colloquial term used in Scotland often not wee at all. 
It is one of those phrases that travelled with the diaspora, like “the 
wee sma’ hours”. It just means a glass of whisky. Today it is thought of 
as a 1/4 of a gill (imperial) although I think of it as a 1/3. It used 
to be a half gill, hence the phrase a half and a half (hauf n a hauf) 
for a half pint of beer and a whisky.

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Regards
     Stephen

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