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Skoal, the usual toast in Nordic languages, Maw & Co English art pottery vase designed by Walter Crane, c. 1885 Toasting in a Taiwanese roadside banquet event A toast in Lisbon, Portugal. In various cultures worldwide, toasting is common and to not do so may be a breach of etiquette. The general theme of a toast is "good luck" or "good health".
"Huzzah" on a sign at a Fourth of July celebration. Huzzah (sometimes written hazzah; originally HUZZAH spelled huzza and pronounced huh-ZAY, now often pronounced as huh-ZAH; [1] [2] in most modern varieties of English hurrah or hooray) is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), "apparently a mere exclamation". [3]
An etymological dictionary discusses the etymology of the words listed. Often, large dictionaries, such as the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's , will contain some etymological information, without aspiring to focus on etymology.
slàinte mhòr "great health" which is also used as a Jacobite toast with the alternative meaning of "health to Marion", Marion (Mòr) being a Jacobite code name for Prince Charles Edward Stuart. [8] The Manx Gaelic form is slaynt (vie) [9] or shoh slaynt. [10] Alternatively, corp slaynt "healthy body" is also used in Manx. [5]
Ching/Qing/etc is not a toast heard in Mandarin, and the cultural separation of Western Europe and China would have made this a recent trend. The history of anti-Semitism in Western Europe would have discouraged the Hebrew adoption, whereas the sound of glasses clinking together in the act of toasting is uniform across borders and languages.
Throughout the Commonwealth realms, the loyal toast is most commonly composed solely of the words "The Queen" [3] or "The King" (as appropriate), though this may be elaborated with mention of the monarch's position as head of a particular state, such as in Canada, where the Canadian Armed Forces codifies the loyal toast as "Ladies and gentlemen, the King of Canada". [4]
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Toast, a 1999 play by Richard Bean; Toast, a memoir by Nigel Slater "A Toast" (anthem) ("Zdravljica"), a poem by France Prešeren and the Slovenian national anthem "A Toast", the title recorded in law for the North Carolina State Toast; Toast: And Other Rusted Futures, a collection of short fiction by Charles Stross