Cheers! by Brandon Cook - 9781684351459

Cheers!Around the World in 80 Toasts\nAuthor(s): Brandon Cook\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Red Lightning Books, United States\nImprint: Red Lightning Books\nISBN-13: 9781684351459, 978-1684351459\nSynopsis\nSalut! Prost! Skl! Na zdrave! Tagay! \n\n No matter what country you clink glasses in, everyone has a word for cheers. In Cheers! Around the World in 80 Toasts, Brandon Cook takes readers on a whirlwind trip through languages from Estonian to Elvish and everywhere in between. Need to know how to toast in Tagalog? Say \""bottoms up\"" in Basque? \""Down the hatch\"" in Hungarian? Cook teaches readers how to toast in 80 languages and includes drinking traditions, historical facts, and strange linguistic phenomena for each. Sweden, for instance, has a drinking song that taunts an uppity garden gnome, while Turkey brandishes words like Avrupal?la?t?ramad?klar?m?zdanm??s?n?zcas?na. And the most valuable liquor brand in the world isn't Johnny Walker or Hennessey, but MaotaiPresident Nixon'.