On
Christmas Eve, I really enjoyed the toast of the (Italian) hostess and her
(Italian) husband -
“Chin
chin!”
-
which is a lot of fun when a ton of people say it all at once, esp. with an
“-ee-” sound for the “i” of “chin”, though that vowel's at a shorter length than the English
“-ee-”.
Oddly,
when I was listening to the folk radio show on New Year’s Eve, a
singer-songwriter who was performing live over the radio played a new song he
wrote involving that toast word, and before playing it he told a story about how his Italian
immigrant grandmother used to toast that way.
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