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Why does everyone call it "Ale-8" when it's really "Ale-8-One" (a play on "A Late One")?

because it's cool 8)

I've called it every one of those except, "Give me one of those." I call the alcoholic beverage of choice a "Seven & Eight". That would be Ale-8-One and Jim Beam aged seven years. A true Kentucky cocktail.

Beverage of choice is right. Yum!

Probably the same reason we ask for a "Coke."

I think it was originally just Ale-8. I don't remember seeing Ale-8-One on the label until about ten years ago.

C'mon now everyone know a Al8 and bourbon as a jitterspeedball!

I heard it called a Kentucky Motherfucker too.

The label has always said "Ale-8-One" but if you know your stuff you never call it that. It's always "L-8", never "Ale-8" like a buckeye.

And for my authority on this, my geography professor made the comment last semester that a place name is pronounced correctly as the local inhabitants pronounce it no matter what you might think the correct pronunciation is. So while its not a place I think that rule of thumb would probably apply with most anthropologists as well. Take it froma local, it's "L-Ate" (one syllable).

I dunno. I've lived in KY all my life and have always heard it called "L-8" (sometimes Ale instead of L, but it depends on how thick your accent is). My college professors even called it that, so, that's what I've always called it. But who the hell am I?