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What’s The Opposite of “Deochanna Meisciúla”? Posted by on Oct 11, 2009

Thinking about the term “soft drinks,” I got to pondering over how and when we use phrase “hard drinks” in English.  I just compared the number of Google citations for “hard drinks” vs. “soft drinks” in English, ca. 46,800 (hard) to ca. 5,780,000 (soft) – an interesting contrast.  “Hard liquor” gives about 581,000 hits but…

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