<link href="9781936976935.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:8f935415-e6be-4269-a133-efc3e8c83483" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <div class="booksection"> <h2 class="chaptitle"><a id="page_177"/><a id="ch53"/>HOW TO SAY ‘BEER’ IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES</h2> <div class="list"> <p class="center"><i>cerveza</i> (Spanish)</p> <p class="center"><i>cerveja</i> (Portuguese)</p> <p class="center"><i>sor</i> (Hungarian)</p> <p class="center"><i>bière</i> (French)</p> <p class="center"><i>Bier</i> (German)</p> <p class="center"><i>bjór</i> (Icelandic)</p> <p class="center"><i>pombe</i> (Swahili)</p> <p class="center"><i>pivo</i> (Russian)</p> <p class="center"><i>öl</i> (Swedish)</p> <p class="center"><i>øl</i> (Danish and Norwegian)</p> <p class="center"><i>olut</i> (Finnish)</p> <p class="center"><i>bira</i> (Turkish)</p> <p class="center"><i>bir</i> (Indonesian)</p> <p class="center"><i>bere</i> (Romanian)</p> <p class="center"><i>birra</i> (Italian)</p> <p class="center"><i>beera</i> (Greek)</p> <p class="center"><i>fermentum/cervisia</i> (Latin)</p> </div> <div class="box1"> <p class="boxtitle">WHERE’S IT FROM</p> <p class="boxhead"><b>TOADY</b></p> <p class="normal">This derives its meaning as a sycophant from the word the ‘toadeater’ who was one half of an eighteenth-century pair of con artists. He would swallow a toad in public and then his partner would cure him with a ‘magical elixir’.</p> </div> </div> </body> </html>