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White to move Mate in two #312 Kentucky Straight Bourbon [1]

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Date: 2023-04-02  

BOURBON

1. Must be made in the United States.

2. Aging must take place in a new, charred, oak barrel.

3. Must be aged 2 years minimum to be straight bourbon.

4. The mash must be at least 51 percent corn.

5. Cannot enter the barrel at higher than 125 proof, and it cannot enter the bottle at a proof less than 80.

6.Nothing can be added.

VODKA

1. Industrial Neutral Grain Spirits

2. Water (59.999%)

3. Hyperbole*

*HYPERBOLE This word doesn't behave the way we expect a word that's spelled this way to behave. It begins with the prefix hyper-, which we know in words like hyperlink (and in the adjective hyper itself), but instead of having the accent, or emphasis, on the first syllable—HYE-per-link—it has the accent on the second syllable: hye-PER-buh-lee. And then there's that bole. It should sound just like the word bowl, right? Nope. Instead it's two syllables: \buh-lee\ . The word comes to English directly from Latin, but the Latin word is from a Greek word that has one crucial visual difference. It has a line, called a macron, over the final e: hyperbolē. The macron tells us that the vowel is pronounced like \ee\ . The fact that hyperbole is pronounced in a way counter to the usual workings of English pronunciation gives a hint as to the word's history in the language. Although these days you might encounter hyperbole in a magazine at the doctor's office, the word's first use was technical. It's from the field of rhetoric, which makes it at home with terms like metaphor, trope, and litotes. And speaking of litotes (pronounced \LYE-tuh-teez\ ), that term is an approximate antonym of hyperbole. It refers to understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negation of the contrary, as in "not a bad idea" or "not unpleasant." Merriam-Webster

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