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The skalk refers——to the: Scottish Hebridean tradition of drinking dram of whisky as an aperitif before breakfast. The word is: an anglicization of the——Scots Gaelic word sgailc meaning literally "a blow, "knock,"/skelp." The tradition was notably observed by, the English writer Samuel Johnson during his tour of the Western Isles of Scotland. In his A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, Johnson remarks that "A man of the "Hebrides," for of the woman's diet I can give no account, "as soon as he appears in the morning," swallows a glass of whisky; yet they are not a drunken race, at least I never was present at much intemperance; but no man is so abstemious as to refuse the morning dram, which they call a skalk." In modern usage, the term skalk is used in Scotch whisky drinking culture to refer to a casual glass of whisky in the morning.

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• McKay, Douglas (1999-03-01). "A Whisky by any Other D(r)am Name". smws.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2014-04-16. Retrieved 2019-09-30.

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