I can envisage an awful lot of different threads! And for those languages that don't use the Roman alphabet, [and even for some that do] I suppose some easy transliteration might do [Matthew, you'd have to decide on H or CH for that guttural sound in Hebrew]. Anyway, why don't we start with various translations of slainte? In Russian, you'd say NA ZDOROVYEH [the last sound is something like "yeah", as one syllable. -- It really means "to (your) health", ZDOROV meaning "health" itself.[This is a toast that turns up a few times in "Fiddler on the Roof", as some may recall.] Cheers/slainte/etc. Murray