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Are you aware that people in Bolivia have a term that means I was somewhat too drunk yesterday and it is almost all their fault? Or the Albanians have twenty seven words for moustache? Or the Dutch word for skimming stones is plimpplamppletteren? Drawing on the collective wisdom of over 280 languages, this book is arranged by theme so you can compare attitudes all over the planet to such subjects as food, the body and the battle of the genders.