Aug 25, 2011 · From Wikipedia: In German, Gesundheit ( [to your] "Health") is said after a sneeze. This is sometimes used in the United States. The expression arrived in America with early German …

Saying "Bless you" (or Gesundheit, or anything else) after someone sneezes does, to some extent, oblige the sneezer to respond with thanks of some kind. This may be inconvenient, especially if the …

Oct 20, 2014 · English speakers not comfortable saying bless you might instead use the German loanword gesundheit. Related question: What are alternative responses for when someone sneezes?

Mar 3, 2025 · FWIW :-) Saint Walburga, a Benedictine nun and healer in the 8th century, is the patron saint of coughing, and a hiccup is (at least etymologically) a kind of cough. So perhaps you could …

I found this googling: And what about scat!? Although this word is facing fierce competition from the German Gesundheit, DARE reports from its many interviews that scat's meaning of "begone" is …

I thought my links to related questions were useful. Here is a new one I found: i vs. I in “pink” “ring” and here are the ones I linked to before: Regarding the “i” in “think” vs “bit”, /i/ sound before ng and nk, …

"God bless you" "Gesundheit" And others. But with a fart you laugh, deride or come up with something clever to say on the spot. Is there a commonly known polite word or phrase that says "I acknowledge …

Nowadays we can see many people using their mobile phone all day long. They are always busy with it and don’t care about the things going around them, whether for social networking like Facebook and

Oct 6, 2015 · My young son recently started saying "Pardon me" after, for example, burping. We try to praise, or at least respond, when he does something right, as encouragement and as a form of …

Jul 21, 2017 · According to Green's Dictionary of Slang, "blue ribbon," at one point meant "the very best gin," and later came to mean gin in general. a blue ribbon worn as a badge of honour; thus referring …